Liz Cheney to AIPAC: Problems with Bush administration’s Mideast policy
By Ami Eden on Jun 2, 2008 in AIPAC policy conference, Featured |
Liz Cheney — daughter of V.P. Dick Cheney — fired off a few shots during her appearance today at the AIPAC conference, essentially aimed at her former boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and her former boss’ boss, President Bush. Cheney didn’t call either of them out by name, but, among other things, did criticize two major initiatives backed by Bush and Rice: the Palestinian legislative elections that ended up bringing Hamas to power and the current effort to advance the peace process
The Palestinians, Cheney said, are not “ready” to reach an agreement. Making matters worse, she added, this futile pursuit of peace will ultimately draw resources away from confronting Iran.
Rice is slated to speak Tuesday morning. It’ll be interesting to see if she responds.
Video after the jump.
Wow… what, guess she gave in once she had the baby and has partaken of the “kool-aid” … she said some very different things last year
Kevin | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
The short term gains of conservative Zionism have the long term effect of guaranteeing no peace for Israel. Maybe a more balanced approach with a new administration can help.
R Keith Gargus | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
Kevin: This is Liz Cheney the older daughter. Mary is the lesbian daughter who had a child.
Ernie of New York | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
That’s right. Liz has FIVE children, who she leaves at home for the nannies to raise while she travels around the country giving McClellanesque speeches.
Mark | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
She really shows the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the proverbial tree. Hey, Liz, shove it, and take that thing of a father of yours to the undisclosed location you both belong in. (readers fill-in your own idea of an undisclosed location). really, honey, who cares what you think?!? oh right, no one does.
breakspear | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
The Palestinians are more honest than their supporters. Their supporters deceitfully claim the Palestinians want peace, whereas the Palestinians say they want to commit genocide. You spoke the truth, Liz Cheney, thereby incurring the wrath of those who don’t.
bob lane | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
Sentient citizens of the Internet,
Please recall that this is the AIPAC Conference. Its speakers, which will include Hillary, Barry & JohnnyMac, are expected to do their hi-step’n Likud-style.
Also remember this is AIPAC’s warm-up to the John Hagee End Times Festival, at which it will be a presenter.
Hadassah Weinreb | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
Liz Cheney, like her father, does not have the best interest of the American people at heart.
The 9-11 Report stated that the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon was to protest the presence of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and our support for Israel. Bin Laden pressed Mohammad to stage the attacks as early as mid-2000 after Ariel Sharon offended many Muslims by visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He tried to accelerate the operation again when he learned Sharon would be visiting the White House in June or July 2001,” had been deleted from the transcript.
Europeans killed Jews and were responsible for the Holocaust, not the Palestinians!Mark Regev, Chief Spokesman, Embassy of Israel, in an appearance on C-SPAN (11-28-07) spoke about his father being liberated as a refugee from Nazi Germany by the U.S. Army in 1945 during WWII and brought to a displaced persons camp and eventually integrated into society. He said Israel was the solution to the Jewish refugee question. M. J. Rosenberg, Israel Policy Forum, a guest on Bill Moyers’s Journal, spoke about his wife’s father being liberated from Nazi Germany as a refugee who also went to Palestine. So European Jewish refugees go to Palestine, take homes and land that belong to the Palestinians making the Palestinians refugees. So they are to the Palestinians what Hitler was to them? Are they any less evil?
The American people and the Palestinian people have had to suffer the consequence of the Holocaust. Europeans killed Jews and Jews kill Palestinians and American tax dollars are extorted to support Jews.
Chagrined
M. Delphia Block | Jun 3, 2008 | Reply
M.Delphia Block, you are quite confused.
1) The 9/11 hijackers were training for their mission, in flight schools in the u.S., during the end of the Oslo period in which Israel, in good faith, was agreeing to return over 90% of the West Bank and all of Gaza to the Palestinians.
2) Ariel Sharon, with the knowledge and permission of the Palestinians security forces visited the temple mount, unquestionably the holiest spot on earth for the Jewish people, where he did not enter a mosque or do anything else that would justifiably anger any Muslims.
3) At this point less than half of the Israeli population can trace their ancestory to “European Jews”. Israeli Jews, who, themselves are less than 80% of the total Israeli citizenry, are decended from Jews who resided in the Middle East, Asia and Africa as well as Europe.
4) Most Israeli Jews live in homes that were not “taken from Palestinians”. Most live on lands that were legally purchased prior to 1948, or lands that belonged to the various administrative bodies (Turks, British, Israeli) that controlled the area previous to the land parcels becoming privately owned. Case in point, when Gaza was returned to the Palestinians, the Palestinians themselves declared that only 7% the land that had made up the Israeli settlements were previously owned by individual land holders.
5) The “European Jews” that you seem to know little about are absolutely less evil than the Nazis. Modern Zionism never included any interest, attempt, or justification for genocide. Israelis have never rounded up Palestinians, transported them away from their homes, forced them into slave labor, and/or exterminated large segments of their population. in a 6 year period Hitler killed 667 out of every 1000 Jews in Europe; almost all of them civilians. In the last 6 years, inarguably the most violent for the Palestinians since the founding of Israel, less then 2 out of every 1,000 Palestinians have been killed; roughly half of them non-citizens.
Your inability to see the difference speaks volumes to both your biases and to your lack of intellectual honesty.
pkafin | Jun 3, 2008 | Reply