The Sunday Shows - Lineup
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For Sunday, June 30, 2006
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert talks to the Israeli ambassador to the U.N., Dan Gillerman, then to the Lebanese special envoy, Nouhad Mahmoud. Dipolmats.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace Undersecretary of State Nick Burns about the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, and Paul Bremer (remember him) about the new plans to rid Baghdad of terrorists.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer has a nice set of guests: Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos is back with Burns, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon, and eventually, Lance Armstrong.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer is in Jersusalem to chat with Burns, Syrian cabinet minister Bouthaina Shaaban (Minister of Expatriates); Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuckie Schumer, None of these guests will, to my knowledge, join him in Jerusalem.
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Personally, I'd like to someone from Hezbollah appear and explain their policy of destroying what they call the "Zionist entity," for all to hear, but there's always a certain amount of cowardice all around. We'll hear from diplomats, not generals. They'll talk about it. You know, there is always a lot of that on these shows.
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Personally, I'd like to someone from Hezbollah appear and explain their policy of destroying what they call the "Zionist entity," for all to hear, but there's always a certain amount of cowardice all around.
Surely you weren't expecting someone to come on and tell the truth, were you?
The truth isn't what the Sunday interview shows are about. Rather, they are about spreading the propaganda from both sides.
The Arabs, of course, do tell the truth -- to themselves, at least. They have been completely willing to publish their goals, all of which end with the destruction of Israel. But they've learned the game well enough that they don't say that to the effete Westerners, who somehow think that there's a middle ground between the Arabs and the Israelis.
The goals of Israel are to live in a secure and peaceful land, as a Jewish state; the goals of the Arabs are to eliminate the state of Israel and expel the Jews. It'll take a smarter man than me to find a reasonable compromise that splits the difference between those two things.
...expel the Jews.
Make "expel" into "kill" or "liquidate" or "eliminate from the face of the earth" or some such verb or phrase and you've got it.
The Islamists (not just the Arabs, BTW) do not want the Jews moved to NY or Paris. They share the same vision for their future as did Hitler and Stalin. And they should be dealt with in the same fashion.
Darn.