The Bush Picture of a Palestinian State

[JustPat]

President Bush has gone on record about his vision of a Palestinian State. Considering the reservations he voices, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54050,00.html , why should there be any such consideration?

One comment that is quite telling:

"One of the things that worries us is spending international aid on an authority that might not keep good books, that the money might not actually go to help the Palestinian people, but might end up in somebody's pocket," Bush said. "That concerns us."

If you can't trust them with the money, why trust them with security? Won't it become agent of the highest bidder? Then Iraq or Iran, Syria or someone else will have tis dagger at the heart of Israel that need only be pushed.

Can a corrupt people be trusted with a state of their own?

[ibrodsky]

When you consider the fact that for many of Israel's enemies nothing has changed in over 50 years, it's hard to imagine a friendly Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel.

Then take into account that the most powerful Palestinian groups disagree only about whether 'tis best to fight straight through to victory (conquest & massacre) or to win in stages (get a state, build an army, "jihad, jihad, jihad!").

I know there are Palestinians that would just like their own state, but the push for a Palestinian state was mainly concocted as a means of keeping the war against Israel going, and duping Western radicals into siding with this phony "national liberation" movement.

A Palestinian state? Someday, perhaps -- but certainly not one whose entire culture revolves around killing Jews.

And certainly not one that leaves Israel with the hard-to-defend cease-fire line of '67 as a "border," and fails to penalize Israel's enemies for 50+ years of belligerence, terrorism, and lies.