Charlie Rose

winter  09/23/2009 10:50 AM Report

Here you go again. The quadrennial Israel Palestinian Peace Negotiations. Is the IDF going to break down the doors of families who've been living in homes for generations, bulldoze them, and build settlements in their place during these negotiations like they've done during every negotiation that's been paraded past an uninformed public?

Is it antisemitic to advocate against having 10 times as many Palestinians killed in the name of religion as Israelis? Israel IS a theoracy, make no mistake in spite of what you might be led to believe. The army is populated by Rabbis and religious extremists who've pledged to not carry out any order of evacuation of settlements. The charade will make for a display of good faith for purposes of kicking the can yet again. Its for the younger generations who've yet to be conditioned I guess.

WWW.IFAMERICANSONLYKNEW.COM will explain it to you.

ibel  11/18/2008 05:19 PM Report

"Palestinians" [are an] Arab people no one heard of before 1967 before Israeli governments certified this piece of propaganda... As has been noted many times before, prior to 1948, that is before Jews had begun to call themselves Israelis, the ONLY persons known as "Palestinians" were Jews, with the Arabs much preferrring to identify themselves as part of the great Arab nation.

- David Basch

"...Palestine does not belong to the "Palestinians" and never did. They did not even call themselves Palestinians until the middle 1960s.

Before that, the word "Palestinian" meant "Jewish," while the local Arabs called themselves simply "Arabs."

The creation of the PLO by Gamal Abdul Nasser in 1964 was a brilliant ploy to distort the parameters of the dispute, largely for propaganda purposes.

It was inconvenient to have a conflict between 20-odd Arab states with an area 530 times greater than Israel, a population more than 30 times greater than Israel's and enormously richer natural resources.

Far better to invent a "Palestinian" nation that would be the eternal "underdog," - a nation consisting partly of Immigrants from Syria and other Arab countries who came to benefit from the rapidly growing economy Zionist Jews created..."

- westerndefense.org

"There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented!

- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader, to the Peel Commission, 1937

"..There is No language known as Palestinian. There is No distinct Palestinian culture.

There has Never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians.

Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another Recent Invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9% of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1% of the landmass.

But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough....""

- Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist

Shalom Freedman  04/07/2008 05:58 AM Report

This is the worst interview I have ever seen Charlie Rose conduct. He after all the years of following the issue shows a total misunderstanding of the Middle Eastern reality. He accepts without question the whole one- sided and misleading idea of the 'occupation'. He shows no real awareness of Palestinian Arabs true positions. When he asks wide-eyedly about the intentions of Hamas and Fayyad evades he does not follow up. My goodness. Hamas night and day proclaims its goal, purpose is to destroy Israel. The fact is Fayyad's Palestinian Authority in its media presentations demonizes Israel. Charlie Rose shows no awareness of this. He does not question Fayyad on the whole internal Palestinian chaos, its continual efforts at Terror.

What a disappointment from someone usually so informed and fair in his interviews- conversations.

Pickok  02/18/2008 02:24 AM Report

"Palestinia" has never existed as a viable state throughout history, hence cannot be considered as a state per se right now. There are many countries that popped up right after WWI, and just as many more phased out as well. Israel, existed long before any of them in the Middle East. After all, non of them could be considered as country since they were all under the Ottoman empire. The name "Palestine" was made popular with the coming of the British right after WWI. Majority of the Arabs living in the present day Israel are originally Egyptians and Jordanians, Egypt and Jordan have plenty of empty spaces; I think they should consider relocating and filling those empty spaces in Egypt and Jordan. I do not see any reason as to why many of the Arabs are waiting in camps elsewhere hopping to return to Israel. When the Jews were getting kicked out of all the Islamic/Arabic countries they did not wait in other neighboring countries camps to return back and claim their properties, they all moved on creating new lives elsewhere. I think "Palestinians" should consider moving on with their lives.

Travis Williams  02/16/2008 04:50 PM Report

Dear Charlie,

The prime minister Fayyad's speech was mumbled and to fast understand. One of your worst interviews!! Sorry,

Travis Williams

travnorma@olypen.com

ab irato  02/15/2008 11:59 PM Report

Hear, hear Martha. Everyone should read your recommendation: THE ISRAEL LOBBY, by Mearsheimer and Wall. A critical read. Thanks.

cogita de hoc  02/15/2008 11:19 PM Report

The book, "The Israel Lobby," by Mearsheimer and Walt, cited somewhere below is indeed a must read.

Martha Jones  02/15/2008 07:04 PM Report

I felt sad as I watched last night's interview because it was obvious to me that Salam Fayyad was unable, for whatever reason, to respond candidly to your questions regarding the so-called Road Map and the likelihood of a Palestinian state. To get answers to those questions I suggest that you read, if you have not already done so, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Even better, I urge you to have these two courageous men as guests on your program. Not doing so proves the premise of the book. I am a big fan of yours, Charlie. Please do it!

Goldie  02/15/2008 04:57 PM Report

I totally endorse the comments of AARON BENEZRA on Friday, Feb 15 at 12:16 AM

sock puppet  02/15/2008 12:51 PM Report

Is there a parallel sense that we should give back the US to the indians based on 1st come retains and/or reclaims? The Israeli gestapo tactics mocks their holocaust to a hollow cost. They learned NOTHING!!

Anton Grambihler  02/15/2008 03:05 AM Report

The United States needs to put together a coalition force like it did when Iraq invaded Kuwait. This force should then be used to force the Israeli invaders back to the International boundaries originally given to it by the United Nations. If Israel then continues to violate International Laws or United National resolutions, the Palestine land which was taken to create Israel will be reclaimed by Palestine, the same as the land given to Nazi Germany was reclaimed by Czechoslovakia. In all cases the Palestine People will retain their right of return.

100% Citizen of the United States of America

ab irato  02/15/2008 01:25 AM Report

When the Israeli to Palestinian kill ratio drops from 4:1 to 1:1 then perhaps peace talks would take on a new gravitas. Suggest: THE ISRAEL LOBBY, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Now that we are entering a recession maybe the Israeli's would consider returning some of lobbied loot.

AARON BENEZRA  02/15/2008 12:16 AM Report

JEWS ARE PALESTINIANS, BY DEFINITION, AS ARE NON-JEWS OF THE SAME MIDDLE EASTERN REGION OF SINAI, ISRAEL, JORDAN, SYRIA, AND LEBANON. This territorial name "Palestine" was given by Ancient Rome, when it conquered and occupied the Middle East; all native residents including Jews were called "Palestinians". The same was true in recent history, when the British and the French held hegemony over Palestine. There was always a Jewish population in Palestine, however small or large in numbers. Now, even in our time, when there are still living witnesses to World War Two, the world has allowed a verbal genocide of Jews in that the Arabs have exclusively taken on the name "Palestinian" with the caveat that no Jews are allowed to be recognized as "Palestinians", let alone as equals. In History there was never a "people" or a "nation" or any "political entity" known as "Palestinian" - except under truly foreign occupation, e.g. Rome, Britain, France. By this one verbal genocide of Jews and Israel, denying that Jews are Palestinian, the Arabs have fabricated and extended a huge lie, namely, that Jews and Israel are "illegal occupiers" of what is in fact historically the land of Israel. The Arabs have manipulated world attitude and policy to confuse Israel with such as Ancient Rome, colonial Britain and France, the "Great Satan" [USA, now "occupying" Iraq\, and even Nazi Germany! Respectively, there are Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Turks, etc. and the welfare of non-Jewish Palestinians should be the domain of those countries. As to the land called "Palestine", that land has already been divided into Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Israel. Israel should show some courage and annex Judea and Samaria, which Israel won in wars of self-defense. Teeny-tiny Israel had humbly accepted so much less in 1948, but, as it's right to exist was accepted by the UN, but, denied by the Arabs, Israel should have enough self-respect to draw sensible lines. It is a cruel disservice to both the Arabs and the Jews, to promulgate the retrograde division of Israel from Small to Tiny, so that another terrorist, Jew-hating State can come into existence. The world at large should wake up to it's own complicity in the demagoguery of the Arabs, beginning by ending the use of the PC term "Palestinian" in it's genocidal usage by the Arabs against the Jews, and then by acting on the perception that the problem is an Arab-Israeli conflict and not an Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Thus says a Jew, who by geographical defninition is also a Palestinian, and who favors the right to "settle" in his own land.