Just more malicious insanity about the Middle East

This just makes me tired and sad.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama defended his endorsement of Israel's 1967 boundaries as the basis for a future Palestine, telling America's pro-Israel lobby Sunday that his views reflected longstanding U.S. policy that needed to be stated clearly.

He also said the Jewish state will face growing isolation without "a credible peace process."

This is utterly ridiculous and unfair that Israel is the one given the responsibility for peace when it is and always has been the intransigent Arab nations that make peace impossible -- because they don't WANT peace, they want Israel GONE. Previous administrations have held policies just as unfair -- Road to Peace Plan etc.

Israel more than fairly won her post-1967 borders in a battle against Arab aggressors in which she was the underdog. Why should she give them back? Everything Israel has done has been defensive, everything the Palestinians and Arab states have done has been aggressive against Israel. What kind of malicious insanity keeps making these decisions?

Every time a peace plan has been prepared the Palestinians have refused it, but Israel has always wrongly been held responsible. There could have been a Palestinian state in the region years ago except for Palestinian objections. It's the Palestinians who don't want peace, egged on by the neighboring Arab states who have kept the Palestinians as pawns in their game against Israel for decades. They don't WANT it. They want Israel GONE, period. They will not EVER accept any accommodations made by Israel -- except Israel's complete disappearance.

Malicious insanity at least.

"If there's a controversy, then it's not based in substance," Obama said in a well-received speech. "What I did on Thursday was to say publicly what has long been acknowledged privately. I have done so because we cannot afford to wait another decade, or another two decades, or another three decades, to achieve peace."

Tell it to the PALESTINIANS, not Israel!

Is Bin Laden dead?

Big celebrations some places because supposedly he is dead.

I don't know why but the news simply means nothing to me. I don't know whether to believe it or not. I wasn't even sure whether to believe he was alive in the first place -- oh I suppose he was -- and now I'm not sure I should believe he's dead.

Yahoo news story: Not everyone believes bin Laden really is dead.

Just another of those credibility gaps with this administration I suppose. Questions come to mind. Why did they bury him at sea, and so soon too? Now that I think about it, that fact alone is enough to raise questions in my mind. Knowing the Holocaust would be denied, Eisenhower made sure there were plenty of photographic records for evidence. Knowing that the death of Osama needs extraordinary proof, this administration buries his body at sea? Something doesn't compute here.

Well, anything's possible. He could be dead, or not. I don't trust anything I hear from this administration any more. Same as with the birth certificate flap, they seem to go out of their way to confuse things rather than clear things up.

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Later: The reports are consistent enough to convince me they probably did get him. Very strange, I don't really care.

Keep thinking as I see stories on aspects of the raid that I'll start to care one way or another. So far not. Don't know why. Maybe it just hasn't sunk in.