Malign Neglect
Both Bush and Kerry blame Arafat for the mess in the Mideast. If the Palestinian leader is suddenly out of the picture, both candidates will have to come up with real policies—not just transparent appeals to Jewish voters.
Newsweek forgets those tens of millions of evangelicals, to whom these transparent appeals are directed also.
Anyway, why the writer of this Newsweek article thinks that the candidates would have to come up with real policies? They could more easily come up with another excuse and stick to it as a reason for inaction. They have both promised Israel free hands to steal as much of the West Bank as it wants, so it´s very unlikely that either of them could be persuaded or forced to do anything to make Israel to give up it´s plans of dividing West Bank into bantustans and stealing large parts of it.
And unconditional support for Greater Israel is also "real policy", even if it´s very bad policy for all considered.
Both Bush and Kerry blame Arafat for the mess in the Mideast. If the Palestinian leader is suddenly out of the picture, both candidates will have to come up with real policies—not just transparent appeals to Jewish voters.
Newsweek forgets those tens of millions of evangelicals, to whom these transparent appeals are directed also.
Anyway, why the writer of this Newsweek article thinks that the candidates would have to come up with real policies? They could more easily come up with another excuse and stick to it as a reason for inaction. They have both promised Israel free hands to steal as much of the West Bank as it wants, so it´s very unlikely that either of them could be persuaded or forced to do anything to make Israel to give up it´s plans of dividing West Bank into bantustans and stealing large parts of it.
And unconditional support for Greater Israel is also "real policy", even if it´s very bad policy for all considered.
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