PUBLIC NUISANCES: Our Jesse/Sharon's Magnanimity
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRELL, JR. Our Jesse WASHINGTON HAVE BEEN READING A COPY OF MEMOIRS written by Jesse Helms, the retired North Carolina senator who braved the liberals' indignation...
...It contains no admirable or impressive conservatives...
...It is dependent on the "consent of the American people...
...Bearing in mind that recently the first conviction of a U.N...
...It will malign his motives and values and belittle his achievements...
...No wonder the liberals are so perplexed and angry...
...Helms writes in straightforward prose from a foundation of beliefs that are solidly conservative...
...Yet neighboring Arab states attacked these Jews to rid them from the region, setting off Israel's War of Independence...
...That would be every liberal Democrat from the past 30 years...
...Blacks have their rights, and with the exception of affirmative action's enduring use the constitutional balance seems to be re-emerging...
...PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...She stayed for the entire three-day ceremony...
...As I say, it is a noble gesture and one that places great trust in the Palestinians...
...This withdrawal is his plan...
...Helms did not do this alone, and arguably he was only a member of the first-string team whose quarterback was Ronald Reagan...
...Nonetheless they still have the capacity, owing to their hold on the culture's centers of influence, to belittle those whom they do not like, and 70 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2005 to present them as grotesqueries...
...Yet I write as an American, comfortably living thousands of miles from this vexed part of the world...
...What the Sharon government intends is that this withdrawal will lead to peace between these two nations...
...Arabs live in Israel with full citizenship...
...On race relations he manfully comes out and makes the case for states' rights and the integration that he seems to think could have been worked out in the last quarter of the 20th century without heavy-handed federal involvement...
...k Sharon's Magnanimity WASHINGTON THE WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA of 8,000 Israeli citizens is as noble an act on behalf of peace as has been recorded in modern history...
...After World War II the Jews accepted the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan to live with Arab indiginae and others in the region in peace...
...On behalf of peace this time the Israelis have done all they can—and Sharon's Nobel Prize for Peace should await him either way...
...The trust, for the most part, comes from Jerusalem, and the Sharon government, believing as it does that after Israel vacates Gaza the Palestinian Authority will hold elections, establish a peaceful government, and control those terrorists intent on destroying Israel...
...This whole policy of magnanimity could backfire on Sharon and leave him with a more dangerous situation than before...
...Franklin Roosevelt is there with all his famous successors, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and various of Helms's colleagues from the Senate: Teddy Kennedy or his sidekick Christopher Dodd—the blood runs thin...
...Sharon is a general of proven prowess...
...And he urges an end to corruption...
...It is the Israelis who pay the price...
...His memoir, Here's Where I Stand (Random House), is a very good refresher course on how America moved from the dreary, futile governance of Jimmy Carter to the present vigor of a proud, can-do America...
...She knew she was with friends...
...Watch the liberals go to work on President George W Bush's perfectly sensible Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts...
...At the end of the senator's long career a frail but spirited Lady Thatcher came to the dedication of his Helms Center in rural North Carolina...
...Thousands of their countrymen who settled Gaza out of religious conviction and the sense that they were fortifying Israeli democracy are now being summarily uprooted and denied the land in which they invested their hearts and their labor...
...So much for the claptrap that generals only want war...
...And so Jesse Helms will be interred in the liberals' burial ground along with Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and all the other political leaders they have opposed...
...He reminds them of the dreadful job they have done as peacekeepers and conflict managers...
...Wherever he mentions that arrogant corrupt organization he is on the money...
...No peace demonstration on record has involved so much personal sacrifice...
...Scholars, whether they be historians or archaeologists, have demonstrated that this is hooey...
...On the United Nations he has my vote every time...
...Review it for yourself...
...Even Boy Clinton gets a polite sendoff...
...The Kultursmog has been writing American history for us for decades...
...Israel was established, and very cruelly the Arab nations allowed uprooted Palestinian Arabs to collect in refugee camps where they became angry pawns of the irredentist Arab states hoping to eliminate Israel...
...What will be left is another grotesque image of the conservative public figure: a bigoted, small-minded, not very intelligent, provincial...
...Strangely Lyndon Johnson is hardly visible...
...In reading Here's Where I Stand I have not been able to slay the fear that the dominant liberal culture, the Kultursmog, is going to rain down on him...
...I am not sure his optimism is warranted...
...For now they support Sharon and withdrawal...
...There are two topics on which Helms is particularly worth reading, race relations and the United Nations...
...A jolt of federal power did the trick...
...I just doubt his approach would have worked...
...Yet there is plenty of evidence that firebrands from the Islamic Resistance Movement known as Hamas, among others, will be emboldened by Sharon's generosity to see his withdrawal as a sign of weakness, or worse, a sign that Hamas's terrorist violence has caused an Israeli defeat and could cause still more Israeli defeats...
...Oil-for-Food crook in what is the largest fraud case in world history, I think we can conclude that old Senator Helms's memoir makes for timely reading...
...In August one of their leading polluters, NARAL Pro-Choice America, aired fraudulent television advertisements presenting Roberts, when he was deputy solicitor general during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, as a supporter of "violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber...
...Thus Sharon's noble gesture could encourage more violence and legitimatize in the eyes of Palestinian voters the most militant of Israel's enemies...
...Jews have inhabited these lands since the time of Abraham...
...Unfortunately he is too much the gentleman to pass on a bad word about any of them...
...Arabs live too under the Palestinian Authority outside of Israel and in areas that it is hoped will become a peaceful Palestinian state...
...Yet Helms was very important, particularly on the social values issues that average Americans now deem so compelling...
...Yet elections among the Palestinians lie ahead...
...He tells a good story...
...Yet he is now, as the phrase has it, giving peace a chance...
...Well, as memoirist Helms says of so many of the deceits he had to deal with, horsefeathers...
...In Here's Where I Stand Helms chronicles reminiscences of scores of friends, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Reagan, and his great friend Lady Thatcher...
...They are a strange band of rastaquoueres, living in what for them is a strange land...
...That is the origin of the present hostilities...
...The extension of federal power into areas not recognized by generations of Americans (and not always salutary) now seems to be receding...
...What if this withdrawal by the Israelis actually is seen by the Palestinian electorate as a vindication of terror and leads to Hamas's victory at the polls...
...The land of Israel is rightfully the land of the Jews...
...If it is repaid by continued terror, let the critics of Israel shut down...
...All in all, this is an enormous effort on behalf of peace made by a noble leader and a noble nation...
...Yet here we are in 2005 with much of the country governed by conservatives and conservative values...
...Mencken and Winston Churchill a century ago when visiting these lands remarked on the peaceful Jewish villagers cultivating their fields and living civilized lives...
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...Our Jesse WASHINGTON HAVE BEEN READING A COPY OF MEMOIRS written by Jesse Helms, the retired North Carolina senator who braved the liberals' indignation to create the politics that now prevails on Capitol Hill and in the White House, namely, modern American conservatism...
...Helms also remembers those with whom he has disagreed...
...There he notified the assembled PUBLIC NUISANCES crooks and agents of tyranny that American sovereignty cannot be usurped...
...Whether my skepticism is right or wrong I shall not have to pay any price...
...The price they pay is beyond simple calculation...
...I accept Helms's insistence that he favored equal rights...
...If all goes well for now, Gaza will be peacefully resettled and the Palestinian Authority will govern in harmony with its Israeli neighbors...
...Across the street is the liberal museum of leadership...
...Nor has any peace demonstration involved so much trust...
...Already the Washington Post is reporting the head of a Gaza branch of Hamas as saying, "Without jihad, without attacking the settlements, digging the tunnels, launching the rockets, the Israelis wouldn't have moved...
...Eighty percent of the Palestinian Arabs deny the right of Israel to exist...
...Most swallow the historically inaccurate line that the Jews "stole" the lands they now inhabit—and their Gaza settlements too—from what are now called the Palestinians...
...Yet I am skeptical that this withdrawal will lead to peace...
...Writers as diverse as H.L...
...The Arab armies were beaten...
...On January 21 Hamas will field candidates against other less violent Palestinian groups, mainly Fatah, Yasser Arafat's old political organization...
...At the very end of his memoir he reprints his very compelling speech to the United Nations as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...The denial of constitutional freedoms had been suffered by blacks for a long time...
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