What George Mitchell and Obama Need to Know About the Middle East

Did you hear about the UN official from the US being kidnapped in Pakistan? His driver was killed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090215/ap_on_re_us/as_pakistan....

Also about a year before the invasion of Iraq, but clearly after 911 happened Pakistani's killed Wall Street Journalist Daniel Pearl.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/pearl-022102.htm......

I am not naive to these realities....And then to think I am going to walk into Pakistan to expect the same thing..?....even when I clearly have opposed Bush and the War on terror since it's inception, to include believing 911 was orchestrated by the Bush administration not binLadin. Do you really think the Taliban will spare my life if I come? And if you do.....do you think the Bush war people will give a shit about what I think in ending the war.....thinking I am nothing but an American taliban that deserves the same fate of death as a common terrorist? I am not the kind of guy to walk into my suicide by going to Pakistan in recent days.

Daniel Pearl was no dove or Nonviolence supporter...he was a Journalist....and most associate journalists as spies... I have no idea who killed Daniel....and think it was really a dumb thing to do......but of course I do not know the whole story.... Anyway of finding out more to why he was killed? I know there were grievences when Pakistan paid good money for F-16's and the US never delivered those planes, or returned the money....In fact I believe this happened before 911 occured.

In December 1981, the government of Pakistan signed a letter of agreement for the purchase of 40 F-16A/B (28 F-16A and 12 F-16B) fighters for the Pakistan Air Force. The first aircraft were accepted in October 1982. The Pakistani F-16s are all Block 15 aircraft, the final version of the F-16A production run. They are powered by the Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-200 turbofan engine. All 40 aircraft were delivered between 1983 and 1987. Pakistan ordered 71 additional Block 15 F-16 aircraft, 11 in December 1988 and 60 in November 1989. However, due to the U.S. embargo of military equipment, only 28 of these aircraft were built, and they were placed in storage at the U.S. Air Force Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Center in Tucson, Ariz.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-16-fms.htm......

Thanks for comment VP. The UN needs The new International Institute of Nonviolence...

The UN needs to learn they need many small Institutes with similar ideas....instead of one big Giant UN order.... This makes people more flexible in doing and achieving things for the better good.

Rev.

Hi djermano,

you said,"Why should Israel hold such power over all the Middle East? If they want Iran to stop its nuclear program....shouldn't Israel also follow in step by dismantling too? If not then Iran has a right to have its nuclear capacity".

Israel is NOT the belligerent one in this case. It is Iran that wants to wipe Israel off the map.

you said,"Israel must discuss its reasons for keeping Palestinains and Arabs out of their Democracy. They must determine what kind of Democracy they have? Democracy is not known to exclude people in its real definition.....but the Israelis fear they will loose Democratic control of Israel....so they follow this type of Apartheid Democracy for Israel.

Arabs are in Israeli democracy presently. Please review the latest elections. Israel is a Jewish State. Whether you want it to be or not it is and will remain Jewish with a non-Jewish minority. Otherwise there will  be no Israel. You can use all the buzz words you want but it is a bit disingenuous to want Israel to absorb the Palestinians into Israel proper. That's Iran's/Hezbullah/Hamas axis greatest dream. 

Just what is Israel? Whereas Hamas has a real Democracy... I have not heard it will exclude Jews from living in Palestine....although the topic may not have been mentioned...certainly Jews probably fear more to live in Palestine, than Palestinians living in Israel.

Come on now you know this isn't the truth. It is official policy of the Palestinian Authority that no Jews will be allowed to live in the new formed Palestinian State. This has been brought up before and shot down. I think you really need to come to grips with a Jewish State and the reason it was founded once again and the reason it will continue to exist unless Iran has its way. then you can forget about life on earth as we know it today or tomorrow.

The issue is Tikun...Israel has the bomb......and the rest of the Middle East does not.  This creates a power vacuum...this make Israel appear as the threat. I don't see how you can deny this.

You have told me before; Israel will not allow more Palestinians to live in Israel to overwhelm the Jewish control of Israel. In other words....if the Palestinians vote on a topic that is not supported by Israeli,  the Israeli's will not follow the rule of law that supports the laws that represent their Democracy, by acknowledging they lost the vote result.. It is very evident Tikun. Even when Hamas was elected outside of Israel....Israel refused to recognize the people voted for him. I do not know how you think Israel will lose itself if Jews don't control everything.

I am not being disingenuous because Netanyahu does not support 2 State solution! How does he suppose Palestinians can vote, when Israel will not let them? So since Netanyahu's Israel will not let them vote....Kadima supports the 2 State solution.  This does not solve the issue of your apartheid democracy either...in that Kadima really supports segregation not a 2 State solution.

I am sure Palestinians would allow Jews to live in Palestine if they bought the land or rented the land from them.....or worked there following the laws.

I am bringing up the real issues to the problem in Israel and what needs to considered for lasting peace. Iran is not going to level an atomic bomb on Israel......Clearly Israel is the provoctor, because they already have the bomb....

Rev. Jermano

Hello Roy C. 

That might be another way of saying India has the bomb...what good does it do them?

America has the bomb. What good does it do them?  and yes the issue is about trust. If we don't trust.....we create more distrust. Once upon a time we did not trust Russia, we did not trust the chinese, we didn't even trust the British....But of course we don't trust the Democrats or the Republicans for that matter do we?  We have been lied too, taken to war, that has killed many innocent people. Since I am an American and lived in America....people around the world associate me to those crimes. I don't like that association because I did not do them, or think my government was right. Now either people trust me, or they don't. Clearly the Bush people do not trust me......because I was against their war.......and I am against violence.

Now go figure Roy......No matter if I support the end to nuclear weapons on the planet, I am not trusted.....or if I support Iran in getting the bomb......I am also not trusted.....

So what the F#&$@?

Rev.

I trust the Iranians.....because it is the benefit of the doubt.....and the US has already proven its failed policies by actually to have been the only nation in the world to use nuclear weapons to kill innocent Japanese people. What don't you see there about the Story of   TRUST?...........Not to hard to figure out.....that is if I trust my own internal instincts....

Rev. Jermano

Good piece, djermano, although I dont fully agree with all you write. The Bomb is indeed a huge issue that should have ben tackled much earlier.  I can't see it being dealt with now, although I agree it is a huge sticking p[oint.  One of the bad focusses of US foreign policy is that it often surrounds countries it sees as a possible threat with allies of its own creation. It has done this with China.  And it obliges other countries to be m,ore aggressive.  There is something of this in Iran.  I'm not surprised some people in Iran feel shakey about the West:  we Brits were quite terrible in what we did.