[NYTr] Former Palestinian Legal Adviser Blasts Bush

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

[Sorry about the formatting of some of this and the incomplete
teaser text.  This is the way it arrived (actually worse; we've
cleaned it up but we don't have time to do the editing to make it more
intelligible. There are links you can use to go to the sites and listen
to the programs. -NYTr]

sent by Francis Boyle - Jan 11, 2008

Media Monitors
http://www.mediamonitors.net/francis13.html

Former Palestinian Legal Adviser Blasts Bush

    Professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Boyle 
is author of "Palestine, Palestinians and International Law." He said 
today: "Contrary to what many are saying -- that Bush has not 
accomplished much in his trip to the Mideast -- he has accomplished a 
great deal of harm.

    "Bush called for 'new international mechanisms, including 
compensation, to resolve the [Palestinian] refugee issue.' This is an 
attempt to dismantle UN Resolution 194, which calls for the return of 
Palestinian refugees. When I was at the Middle East Peace Negotiations 
in 1991 as legal adviser to the Palestinian delegation, [then Secretary 
of State James] Baker instructed [his assistant Margaret] Tutwiler to 
publicly invoke Resolution 194, which she did. Bush's attempt to 
dismantle it is a major change in U.S. policy.

    "Bush also said: 'The agreement must establish Palestine as a 
homeland for the Palestinian people, just as Israel is a homeland for 
the Jewish people.' Israel could use such an agreement to strip its 
Palestinian, non-Jewish citizens of Israeli citizenship, let them live 
in Israel, but say that now they can become citizens of Palestine. This 
is exactly what the South African Afrikaners did to blacks with their 
bantustans during the apartheid era. Even worse, it could set the stage 
for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Israel to a Palestinian 
bantustan.

    "Bush's statements that the Palestinian state should be 'viable, 
contiguous, sovereign, and independent' and that 'Swiss cheese isn't 
going to work when it comes to the outline of a state,' sound 
substantial, but are rendered rather meaningless since he only said the 
U.S. is opposing 'settlement expansion' -- meaning that current 
settlements, which effectively cut up the West Bank into apartheid-style
bantustans, will remain and be annexed by Israel."

                            ***


TalkNationRadio
http://talknationradio.com/?p=124

Boyle and Bennis on Bush, Palestine and Iran

By Dori Smith

Professor Francis A. Boyle teaches international law at the University
of Illinois and is a leading expert on the case of Palestinians against
Israel over land and the occupation. He sees George W. Bush's Middle
East trip as a way for ... [whatever..]

We discuss the way US foreign policy questions are being handled during
US primaries and evaluate the President's trip to the Middle
East. Is current escalation and Strait indication of intent to attack
Iran?

<http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=15624&file_id=15624>