Alarming news from Ha'aretz

The Ha'aretz article, Bush to suggest new ideas for Israeli-Palestinian agreement, brings a lot of alarming news. Most people will comment regarding Bush's new ideas:

 

Officials believe U.S. President George W. Bush will make new suggestions for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in a speech slated for June 24. The event will mark the fifth anniversary of the speech in which he unveiled his "two-state vision" to end the conflict.

 

It was not clear what ideas the administration is formulating, the officials said.

 

It will not be much clearer after the speech, probably. Any time Bush has an idea about something it can be very dangerous. Ask the Iraqis. But Bush and everyone else are always suggesting new ideas about Israeli-Palestinian peace, and somehow nothing comes of them. That is really bad news, not good,  but it is a fact.

 

However there are two other bits of alarming news in this article. The first is this gem:

 

"This is why the U.S. wishes to supply the JDAM bombs to Iran despite Israel's objection."

 

The U.S. supplying bombs to Iran??? Of course it is one of those wonderful editing errors.

 

The real alarming news is this:

 

The officials said Bush was expected to report progress on a memorandum of understanding to increase U.S. military aid to Israel. The current accord expires next year, as does the civil economic aid package. Israel wants the U.S. to gradually raise the military aid to more than $2.4 billion annually, as the current accord stipulates.

Israel is increasing its dependency on the US, step by step.

 

Ami Isseroff