WHAT MAKES CONDOLEEZZA RUN?
Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Dear Friends,
In my Letter from Jerusalem of January 11, 2007, entitled THE STATE DEPARTMENT vs. THE JEWS AND ISRAEL, I included the list of U.S. Secretaries of State since the rebirth of the State of Israel.
This article evoked much interest, especially from Americans, both Jews and Christians. Thank you, dear friends! Your taking time out to reply to my article is reassuring. You do care greatly about what happens here in Israel!
Some of you listed the Secretaries of State who you do not admire – guess who was at the top of this list? Condoleezza Rice! That may be because she so openly shows her animosity to Israel and the Jews!
She lists as her best friends and mentors two former U.S. Secretaries of State, James Baker and Colin Powell. One of these verbalizes crude intentions toward the Jews – four letter words and all – and the other one can’t tell the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter!
But let us proceed to the present situation.
During her recent visit to Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice worked hard to promote Mahmoud Abbas as the poster-boy of moderation.
Standing next to Abbas at a press conference on January 14, she practically gushed with enthusiasm when she said in her opening remarks, “I want everyone to know, particularly the Palestinian people, how much we admire the leadership of President Abbas as a leader of the Palestinian people.”
But only three days before that, at the January 14 press conference, Abbas publicly called upon Palestinians to attack Israel! Speaking at a rally to mark the 42nd anniversary of the founding of Fatah, Abbas told a huge crowd in Ramallah, “With the will and determination of its sons, Fatah will continue. We will not give up our principles. We have said that rifles should be directed against the occupation. We have a legitimate right to direct our guns against Israeli occupation.”
This week I received a letter from a dear Christian Zionist friend of mine, Dr. Jim Vineyard, who heads the Yedidim (Friends) of Israel organization in the United States.
He wrote me that Condoleezza Rice stated, after returning home from her meetings with Abbas, that the U.S. is working with Abbas’ Fatah to create a unified Palestinian security force. Rice then announced a United States 86.4 million dollar grant, which will be for the purpose of equipping and training Abbas’ Fatah forces!
Mahmoud Dahlan is the Gaza warlord who will be responsible for carrying out this plan. Dahlan’s curriculum vitae includes the school bus bombing where two adults were killed, and the three Cohen children were crippled for life, as their limbs had to be amputated.
According to Dr. Vineyard, Dahlan is going to include leaders of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization from Nablus and Jenin and Ramallah.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, along with Islamic Jihad – both – have taken responsibility for “every suicide bombing” in Israel in the past two years, including an attack in Tel Aviv in April that killed American teenager Daniel Wultz and nine Israelis.
The following is Mahmoud Dahlan’s exact quote of just a few days ago. Dahlan said:
“THE PROJECT THIS TIME IS SUPPOSED TO BE ARMING FATAH AGAINST HAMAS, BUT [ALLAH] FORBID, I WILL NEVER SHOOT AGAINST MY BOTHERS IN HAMAS.
THE [USA] WEAPONS AND AID WILL PROTECT THE INSTITUTIONS OF FATAH AND BE USED TO FIGHT ISRAELI OCCUPATION!”
The “brilliant” diplomatic efforts of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have landed the United States in an untenable situation. America will be bank-rolling a terrorist and a murderer of innocent people, and the financier of the Munich massacre, where 11 athletes were murdered, including an American, David Berger. He is also a holocaust denier, just like his buddy Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran.
The Arabs are brazenly telling us what they plan to do with the American windfall!
Are you hard of hearing Condoleezza? Don’t you understand how Abbas means to use the American money? Does it not disturb you just a wee bit that your “diplomatic” efforts will cause the death of many innocent people?
Dear friends, there you have it in a nutshell. Abbas will not use the generous American grant of 86.4 million dollars to fight Hamas, but for a wholesale killing of the infidel Jews and Christians. You do know, don’t you, that the majority of Christians have fled from Bethlehem because they are afraid of the Moslems?
What can you do? Bombard President Bush, your senators and your congressmen with faxes and letters and phone calls with this simple message or a variation thereof:
“I don’t want my taxpayers money to end up in the pockets of terrorists and murderers. Don’t fund their jihad against all of us non-Moslems!”
Please distribute this Letter from Jerusalem as widely as possible.
I am including an article I wrote a year ago about Condoleezza Rice, entitled “A SHIP ON OILY WATERS.” This article might help to explain who Condoleezza is and who she is representing! Is she still representing the oil industry which named a double-hulled 129,000 ton giant tanker “Condoleezza Rice” in her honor?
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A SHIP ON OILY WATERS
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2005
Dear Friends,
I must confess that I have heretofore been an admirer of the new US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. She seemed to me to be a perfect role model for women, someone who grew up in very difficult circumstances, but pulled herself up by her bootstraps, and reached the very heights of personal achievement. President George W. Bush nominated her to succeed Colin Powell as US Secretary of State in November of 2004, and the Senate confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85 – 13.
Condoleezza Rice was born on November 14, 1954, in Birmingham, Alabama, the only child of Angelena Rice and the Reverend John Wesley Rice, Jr., a minister at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Birmingham, Alabama, where Condoleezza grew up, is the town where Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King was thrown in jail for demonstrating without a permit. Where black people had to ride at the back of the bus. Where black people weren’t even allowed to drink water from public fountains. Where a classmate of Condoleezza, Denise McNair, was among the four girls killed in the 1963 bombing of an African-American Baptist church by white supremacists. But Condoleezza states that growing up during segregation taught her determination against adversity.
I was very pleased, along with many others, that Colin Powell was not going to be the US Secretary of State during the second term of President George W. Bush, as Israeli analysts had predicted that Condoleezza Rice was going to be friendlier to Israel than her predecessor. I became somewhat concerned when I learned that at her Senate confirmation hearing Rice said: “And, if I am confirmed, I will be especially honored to succeed a man I so admire – my friend and mentor, Colin Powell. He was a great and inspirational Secretary of State.”
That was the first alarm bell. Colin Powell was the US Secretary of State, who described Arafat to a US Senate Committee as follows: “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
I became really concerned about Ms. Rice’s attitude toward Israel when I read the newspaper headlines during her recent whirlwind tour of Europe and the Middle East. For instance, the headline in The Jerusalem Post of February 7, 2005 read as follows on the front page:
RICE CALLS ON ISRAEL TO HELP, NOT HINDER, ABBAS.
In private meetings and public declarations, visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israel to do everything possible to support Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and to refrain from taking steps that would make it more difficult for him to assert his authority… According to diplomatic officials, Rice said that Abbas needed to have tangible results to take to his people….
What exactly does that mean? Should the victim supply the hangman with the rope? Should Israel be on Abbas’ side in the negotiations? Does Ms. Rice not want a mutual give and take? Condoleezza also made it clear that the US government was against settlements. Whose settlements? (According to Joseph Farah, Arab-American head of World Net Daily, more Arab than Jewish settlements have been established in the Holy Land since 1948. As a matter of fact, almost twice as many Arab settlements than Jewish settlements have been built since the Jewish State was reborn!) Also, Condoleezza insists that the Disengagement Plan go forward as promised by Sharon. Altogether, Rice made it clear that she wanted Israel to take steps to bolster Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen).
It seems that Rice was not concerned about bolstering Sharon, who had just encountered a massive non-violent demonstration of at least 200,000 people who strongly disagreed with his policies vis a vis the PLO enemy, and his intentions to reward such terrorists with Biblical covenant land.
Condoleezza Rice, in an interview with Yediot Aharonot, said: “I am the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and was brought up on the very moving stories of the Holy Land. They mean a lot to me. When I first visited Mt. Olives, Lake Kinneret, Jerusalem, I felt a very deep emotional experience. I already then felt that I am returning home despite the fact that this was a place that I never visited. I have a deep affinity with Israel.”
Sadly to say, the daughter of a Minister of God is hell-bent on promoting the expulsion of 8,000 Jews from their Biblical homeland. During her childhood, Condoleezza must have read the Judeo-Christian Bible. No doubt she must have come across the fact in the Book of Joshua that G-d gave Gaza to the Tribe of Judah. Also, that it is stated in the Book of the prophet Amos, Chapter 9: 14-15, “I will return the captivity of my people Israel, and they will rebuild desolate cities and settle them; they will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will cultivate gardens and eat their fruits. I will plant them upon their land and they will never again be uprooted from their land that I have given them, said HASHEM your G-d.”
I decided to do some research through the Internet to find out more about Condoleezza Rice. If you, dear friend, have some extra time, you will be able to find out interesting facts about Condoleezza Rice, her attitude to the Holy Land, and her past associations, which are far from reassuring for friends of Israel. For instance, James Baker of “F__k the Jews” fame, is one of her good friends. They have many common interests and attitudes.
As Condoleezza Rice embarked on her maiden voyage after her appointment as US Secretary of State, it was reported that she departed from America armed with a new policy paper on how to implement the Quartet’s Road Map produced by the JAMES BAKER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AT RICE UNIVERSITY.
According to Edward Djerejian, the former US Ambassador to Syria who directs the Baker Center, the policy paper, with its detailed recommendations, is a “street map to the Road Map.”
The following is part of an article by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post columnist:
“… the team that composed the report included senior policy makers from the US, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Canada and the World Bank. The US was represented by current Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs William Burns as well as by Norman Olsen, the political counselor at the US embassy in Israel. The PA was represented by security strongman Jibril Rajoub and by senior aides to Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Arafat and Ahmed Qurei. Egypt was represented by Dictator Hosni Mubarak’s senior adviser Osama El Baz and by General Hossam Khair Allah.
Israel had no official representation. Rather, the Jewish state was represented by none other than Yossi Beilin’s Geneva Accord crowd. Amnon Lipkin Shahak and Shlomo Brom, signatories to that subversive agreement where private citizens tried to abscond with the government’s sovereign power to determine foreign policy by negotiating the scandalously anti-Israel “accord,” participated. They were joined by members of Beilin’s EU-financed think tank, the Economic Cooperation Foundation.
Not surprisingly, the product this team produced and delivered to Rice is soft on Palestinian terrorism, soft on Palestinian democratization, and relentlessly harsh toward Israel – its sovereignty, its right to defend itself, and its ability to claim any right to retain any of the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria.
The document makes no clear statement on the need for the Palestinians to dismantle terrorist organizations. Indeed, the term “terror organizations” is absent from the report. Instead, the Palestinian requirement to combat terrorism is reduced to demands on Israel to facilitate the training, arming and operation of the “reformed” Palestinian security services while not interfering with them in any way….
But two questions still arise: Why is the US government sending its officials to participate in a ‘working group’ which works to undermine the sovereignty of a US ally; and why is the Israeli government not taking legal action against private citizens who travel the world “negotiating” away the sovereign rights of the state while undermining the prerogatives of the Israeli government?”
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I have only chosen two items from her background which I feel cast light on the persona of Condoleezza Rice.
1) Chevron is a San Francisco-based multinational oil firm, one of the top ten largest oil companies in the world. Condoleezza Rice served on Chevron’s board from 1991 until January 15, 2001, when she resigned after Bush named her as his top national security aide. A double-hulled 129,000-ton giant tanker, part of the international fleet of Chevron, had years before been named “Condoleezza Rice” in honor of her service to the Chevron oil company.
Critics complained that the ship served as a giant floating symbol of the Bush administration’s cozy ties to the oil industry. The tanker’s name also raised more serious questions of possible conflict of interest for Rice, because Chevron does business on six continents and in 25 countries, and has been sued for alleged human-rights abuses in Nigeria.
Leaving a wave of controversy in its wake, one of the most visible reminders of the Bush administration’s ties to big oil – the “Condoleezza Rice” tanker – was quietly renamed the “Altair Voyager.”
2) There has been widespread concern that Rice’s expertise is the Soviet Union and that she is out of her depths in the Middle East. Actually, she was out of her depths in relation to the Soviet Union as well. Rice, who claims an expertise in nothing less than the high-stakes world of global power, has failed spectacularly as the “expert” who was disastrously wrong in her area of expertise — the US relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev. President George H. W. Bush, Rice, National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, James Baker (then Secretary of State) and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Colin Powell approved supporting the Soviet leader and his vision of a reformed Soviet Union. Dick Cheney (then Secretary of Defense), Paul Wolfowitz (his deputy), and Lewis “Scooter” Libbey foresaw the break-up of the USSR and wanted to speed it along. “Regime change” in Europe and Asia was what the Cheney crew were after — with resulting opportunities for American corporate interests if the US got in on the action early.
As it turned out, Bush and Rice prevailed. In one famous incident, Rice physically blocked the door to the Oval Office to prevent Russian leader Boris Yeltsin from meeting with the President. The Bush team was slow to grasp the scope of the changes that were seizing Europe, slow to encourage the unification of Germany, and slow to give up on the Soviet Union. A speech Bush gave with Rice’s assistance in Kiev became notorious as the “Chicken Kiev” speech because in it, the US urged the people of the Ukraine, (then clamoring for independence), to remain loyal to Moscow. At the same time, the President balked at giving Gorbachev what he needed — either at arms talks, or in terms of foreign aid — and the Soviet leader’s domestic currency made a nose-dive. Within months, the Gorbachev era was over. The new post-Soviet Republics broke away one by one and in Russia, Yeltsin rose to power.
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The above information gleaned from the Internet certainly made me less starry-eyed about Condoleezza Rice.
Of prime importance to us in Israel is Condoleezza Rice’s apparent antagonism to the Jewish People, and their right to live in their entire homeland, as spelled out continuously in the Bible. We must also be aware of her continual attempts to whitewash Mahmoud Abas (Abu Mazen) and his unsavory past.
The next holocaust train has already left the station and is once again hurtling towards the abyss. What will change the US policy favoring the forced deportation of Jews from Gaza and Samaria?
Dear friends, I feel that only a very strong showing of support for Israel by Jewish and Christian Bible believers, and other concerned supporters of Israel, will be able to stop this train.
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With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
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