The basic premise of the Aspen Institute's well-intentioned initiatives in the Middle East is that economic development on the West Bank (the area controlled by Mahmoud Abbas and his organization, Fatah) is the key to success in the ongoing peace negotiations. It is supposed that this effort will bring jobs, income, a positive-initiative multiplier effect, and a reduction in despair. The institute is counting on this effort to be a breakthrough success in the region. This, in turn, according to the institute's thinking, will create a path toward "peace."
However, despite many indications of the true, underlying fundamental roadblock to progress for peace, these idealists (representing the American and Western discounting of hard realities) insist that it is economic opportunities that can create new visions and change conditions in the region. I respectfully disagree.Wearing a nicely Nike air max tn with a reputed brand name printed on it is surely going to compel most of your fellows to adore your sense of fashion and style Further, the Aspen Institute, while attempting to express "all points of view," systematically exhibits biases against a full airing of the issues in the public forums organized by it for public consumption.
The blockage to peace in the region is based upon not economics, but instead an intractable religious ideology of a nihilistic form of Islam -- and a point of view rarely, if ever, expressed in the idyllic location of Aspen, CO. The ideologues of the Institute -- an otherwise marvelous organization doing wonderful work worldwide -- categorically refuse to process information that would shine the light on other points of view in this intractable conflict.opting for a newly engineered Air max 360 cushioning system. The result is a perpetuation of conflict and a total waste of valuable resources funded by trustees and fellows of the institute.
The underlying fact is that the Palestinian leadership -- whether Fatah in the West Bank or Hamas in Gaza -- refuses to accept anything other than a Muslim-controlled entity where Israel now stands. This is why regardless of the faction and how "peaceful" they claim to be, their logos show all of Israel as incorporated into the future Palestinian state. They all envision the dismantling of the State of Israel. This, in effect, will wipe out Israel as the only Jewish state in the world. (There are well over 45 Muslim majority-controlled states in the world, and many Christian states, too.) Implementation of the "right of return" -- in essence, permitting millions of "refugees" (grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great, great grandchildren of the original refugees) is a surefire demographic time bomb that will alter the electorate in Israel and result in the destruction of all the political and economic structures put in place since Israeli independence in 1948.
(Frankly, the issues and the proposed solution would be no different if it were not Jews,“Christian and she were laughing as she tried on ed hardy sunglasses and checked out the bathing suits,” said the Ed Hardy rep. but instead Christians, Hindus, or Buddhists who controlled the land area known as "Israel." The ummah [the Arab community or "street"], headed by virulent authoritarian leadership, will not accept anything other than an authority dedicated to the restoration of the Muslim caliphate and the imposition of Sharia law -- inherently non-democratic, anti-feminist, anti-gay...and anti-American.)
As to legitimacy, Israel is no less legitimate than many other national entities in the region. As a brief historical review, the British installed a Saudi tribe -- the Hashemites -- in the area known as Transjordan after the Supreme Allied Powers carved up the Middle East during the 1920s. The Hashemites lost a tribal war with the House of Saud (1922) over control of the Muslim holy places in Medina and Mecca. Almost 80% of the British Mandate promised for a Jewish Homeland through the Balfour Declaration (1917) was removed from the intended land designation in one swoop following the San Remo Conference in Italy after WWI. Jordan today controls the largest "Palestinian" population in the world, yet Jordan is threatened by destabilizing factors instigated by radial jihadists.
Aspen will be honored to host Jordan's King Abdullah in a return visit to the Aspen Institute during the summer of 2011. Never mentioned in any of the publicity pieces put out by the kingdom or the Aspen Institute is the fact that the forces that assassinated Abdullah's great grandfather (his namesake) in front of the Al Aqsa mosque in 1953 and almost killed his father (King Hussein of Jordan) are alive and well in Egypt today (the Islamic Brotherhood, or "Ichwhan"). They stand ready to subvert any and all reductions in confrontations between Arab states and the West. They killed Anwar Sadat in their attempts to destroy the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. They have indicated their desire to promote more violence once they are unleashed as a political force after the death of Egyptian President Mubarak's death (expected in 2011).
King Abdullah's lecture in 2008 blamed Israel for the difficulties in the region. So did the Palestinian Foreign Minister Salem Fayyad, who spoke in 2010 in Aspen. The latter made peaceful overtures to the Aspen crowd and to questioners (such as former CIA Director Jim Woolsey). However, words spoken in English in Aspen have little impact in moderating the incendiary words spoken back home in Arabic. This point is not lost on our invitees -- just on the attendees, who ingratiate themselves in the presence of such political influence.
Through creative map-making following World War I, the victors of the war were the colonial powers -- mainly Great Britain and France. They created the countries of Transjordan (as noted),Holiday shoppers hoping to get a good deal on upscale Ugg boots or burberry bags at Rice's Market in Solebury were disappointed Tuesday morning. Lebanon (carved out of Greater Syria), and Iraq (formerly the Ottoman region known as Mesopotamia). The British installed a former Saudi as king of Iraq -- the great grand-uncle of the current king of Jordan.Police say a youth in a white baseball cap pulled out a large knife and threatened to stab the man. Why was a Sunni Arab from the Arabian peninsula installed over a very proud but culturally different set of peoples who hearken back to the days of Babylonia and today are majority Shia?
However, despite many indications of the true, underlying fundamental roadblock to progress for peace, these idealists (representing the American and Western discounting of hard realities) insist that it is economic opportunities that can create new visions and change conditions in the region. I respectfully disagree.Wearing a nicely Nike air max tn with a reputed brand name printed on it is surely going to compel most of your fellows to adore your sense of fashion and style Further, the Aspen Institute, while attempting to express "all points of view," systematically exhibits biases against a full airing of the issues in the public forums organized by it for public consumption.
The blockage to peace in the region is based upon not economics, but instead an intractable religious ideology of a nihilistic form of Islam -- and a point of view rarely, if ever, expressed in the idyllic location of Aspen, CO. The ideologues of the Institute -- an otherwise marvelous organization doing wonderful work worldwide -- categorically refuse to process information that would shine the light on other points of view in this intractable conflict.opting for a newly engineered Air max 360 cushioning system. The result is a perpetuation of conflict and a total waste of valuable resources funded by trustees and fellows of the institute.
The underlying fact is that the Palestinian leadership -- whether Fatah in the West Bank or Hamas in Gaza -- refuses to accept anything other than a Muslim-controlled entity where Israel now stands. This is why regardless of the faction and how "peaceful" they claim to be, their logos show all of Israel as incorporated into the future Palestinian state. They all envision the dismantling of the State of Israel. This, in effect, will wipe out Israel as the only Jewish state in the world. (There are well over 45 Muslim majority-controlled states in the world, and many Christian states, too.) Implementation of the "right of return" -- in essence, permitting millions of "refugees" (grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great, great grandchildren of the original refugees) is a surefire demographic time bomb that will alter the electorate in Israel and result in the destruction of all the political and economic structures put in place since Israeli independence in 1948.
(Frankly, the issues and the proposed solution would be no different if it were not Jews,“Christian and she were laughing as she tried on ed hardy sunglasses and checked out the bathing suits,” said the Ed Hardy rep. but instead Christians, Hindus, or Buddhists who controlled the land area known as "Israel." The ummah [the Arab community or "street"], headed by virulent authoritarian leadership, will not accept anything other than an authority dedicated to the restoration of the Muslim caliphate and the imposition of Sharia law -- inherently non-democratic, anti-feminist, anti-gay...and anti-American.)
As to legitimacy, Israel is no less legitimate than many other national entities in the region. As a brief historical review, the British installed a Saudi tribe -- the Hashemites -- in the area known as Transjordan after the Supreme Allied Powers carved up the Middle East during the 1920s. The Hashemites lost a tribal war with the House of Saud (1922) over control of the Muslim holy places in Medina and Mecca. Almost 80% of the British Mandate promised for a Jewish Homeland through the Balfour Declaration (1917) was removed from the intended land designation in one swoop following the San Remo Conference in Italy after WWI. Jordan today controls the largest "Palestinian" population in the world, yet Jordan is threatened by destabilizing factors instigated by radial jihadists.
Aspen will be honored to host Jordan's King Abdullah in a return visit to the Aspen Institute during the summer of 2011. Never mentioned in any of the publicity pieces put out by the kingdom or the Aspen Institute is the fact that the forces that assassinated Abdullah's great grandfather (his namesake) in front of the Al Aqsa mosque in 1953 and almost killed his father (King Hussein of Jordan) are alive and well in Egypt today (the Islamic Brotherhood, or "Ichwhan"). They stand ready to subvert any and all reductions in confrontations between Arab states and the West. They killed Anwar Sadat in their attempts to destroy the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. They have indicated their desire to promote more violence once they are unleashed as a political force after the death of Egyptian President Mubarak's death (expected in 2011).
King Abdullah's lecture in 2008 blamed Israel for the difficulties in the region. So did the Palestinian Foreign Minister Salem Fayyad, who spoke in 2010 in Aspen. The latter made peaceful overtures to the Aspen crowd and to questioners (such as former CIA Director Jim Woolsey). However, words spoken in English in Aspen have little impact in moderating the incendiary words spoken back home in Arabic. This point is not lost on our invitees -- just on the attendees, who ingratiate themselves in the presence of such political influence.
Through creative map-making following World War I, the victors of the war were the colonial powers -- mainly Great Britain and France. They created the countries of Transjordan (as noted),Holiday shoppers hoping to get a good deal on upscale Ugg boots or burberry bags at Rice's Market in Solebury were disappointed Tuesday morning. Lebanon (carved out of Greater Syria), and Iraq (formerly the Ottoman region known as Mesopotamia). The British installed a former Saudi as king of Iraq -- the great grand-uncle of the current king of Jordan.Police say a youth in a white baseball cap pulled out a large knife and threatened to stab the man. Why was a Sunni Arab from the Arabian peninsula installed over a very proud but culturally different set of peoples who hearken back to the days of Babylonia and today are majority Shia?
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