For Israel, It's Like Clinton Never Left
The Bush Administration may be fighting the GWOT elsewhere, but as far as the Jewish State is concerned, the White House's attitude is, "Oslo now, Oslo forever":
When Israel abandoned Gaza to its Islamist/terrorist enemies, a lot of us said it was a horrible idea. It was, plainly and simply, a retreat in the GWOT. And the worst part of it was that the Bush Administration - the Bush Administration - was the primary pusher of this hideously ill-advised retreat.
The inevitable consequences of that flight were not long in coming. Synagogues were burned and ransacked, Jewish cemetaries desecrated. Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets continue to regularly rain down on Israeli population centers aross the newly shrunken border. True peace, if it were ever possible in this part of the world, has not been hastened, but made more unlikely than ever.
Yet there was Secretary of State Rice, forcing our supposed allies into yet another capitulation that can only strengthen the warmongering, genocidal Palestinian factions.
What else can one conclude about the Pals getting "almost unfettered control of their border with Egypt"? Who will keep out in-flowing terrorists from al Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups? Who will keep out bigger and heavier weaponry? The EUnuchs? Gimme a break; they're only there to browbeat the Israeli official(s) in the "control room" if they have the temerity to lodge any objections.
What else as well can one conclude from the fact that Condi was going to stay as long as it took to get an "accord"? The first rule of successful negotiating is to be able to be the last party at the table. It's the dickerers in a hurry, or under enormous pressure, who tend to lose their shirts. The poor Israelis were under both guns; it goes without saying that Palestinian intransigence on disarming the terrorist squads in their midst that continue to attack Israel wasn't going to be a deal-breaker. Failure to knuckle under would have just gotten Jerusalem more international disapprobation as the "obstacle to Middle East peace" and thus even greater pressure brought to bear on them to give in. It's a vicious circle that the election of George W. Bush was supposed to break, and for a while did, but, sadly and infuriatingly, no longer.
And when an Islamist chemical attack launched from Gaza slaughters 20,000 Jews in Tel Aviv, will "the international community" condemn it and sanction an Israeli re-taking of Gaza, or will even more withering pressure be applied to the Jewish State to "redouble its efforts in the 'peace process'"?
Duh. As everybody is supposed to know, and President Bush has fully bought into, the road to "peace" is paved in Jewish blood.
Or, as Spock of Vulcan might have put it, "The needs of the Muslims outweigh the needs of the Jews - or anybody else."
[HT: CQ]
Israel and the Palestinians settled Tuesday on the final details of a border agreement for Gaza that gives the Palestinians almost unfettered control of their border with Egypt.
In the works for weeks, the U.S.-mediated agreement followed marathon negotiations Monday night that included Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice delayed a planned trip to Asia to ensure the two sides signed the deal, U.S. Embassy spokesman Stewart Tuttle said. She had said she would not leave without an accord....
European Union representatives on the ground will monitor compliance, as will a joint Israeli-Palestinian-European control room, according to the agreement. Goods coming into Gaza from its revamped border terminal at Rafah will be monitored by sophisticated X-ray equipment.
In a critically important step for future Palestinian trade, the deal also allows the Palestinians to begin building a Gaza seaport.
When Israel abandoned Gaza to its Islamist/terrorist enemies, a lot of us said it was a horrible idea. It was, plainly and simply, a retreat in the GWOT. And the worst part of it was that the Bush Administration - the Bush Administration - was the primary pusher of this hideously ill-advised retreat.
The inevitable consequences of that flight were not long in coming. Synagogues were burned and ransacked, Jewish cemetaries desecrated. Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets continue to regularly rain down on Israeli population centers aross the newly shrunken border. True peace, if it were ever possible in this part of the world, has not been hastened, but made more unlikely than ever.
Yet there was Secretary of State Rice, forcing our supposed allies into yet another capitulation that can only strengthen the warmongering, genocidal Palestinian factions.
What else can one conclude about the Pals getting "almost unfettered control of their border with Egypt"? Who will keep out in-flowing terrorists from al Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups? Who will keep out bigger and heavier weaponry? The EUnuchs? Gimme a break; they're only there to browbeat the Israeli official(s) in the "control room" if they have the temerity to lodge any objections.
What else as well can one conclude from the fact that Condi was going to stay as long as it took to get an "accord"? The first rule of successful negotiating is to be able to be the last party at the table. It's the dickerers in a hurry, or under enormous pressure, who tend to lose their shirts. The poor Israelis were under both guns; it goes without saying that Palestinian intransigence on disarming the terrorist squads in their midst that continue to attack Israel wasn't going to be a deal-breaker. Failure to knuckle under would have just gotten Jerusalem more international disapprobation as the "obstacle to Middle East peace" and thus even greater pressure brought to bear on them to give in. It's a vicious circle that the election of George W. Bush was supposed to break, and for a while did, but, sadly and infuriatingly, no longer.
And when an Islamist chemical attack launched from Gaza slaughters 20,000 Jews in Tel Aviv, will "the international community" condemn it and sanction an Israeli re-taking of Gaza, or will even more withering pressure be applied to the Jewish State to "redouble its efforts in the 'peace process'"?
Duh. As everybody is supposed to know, and President Bush has fully bought into, the road to "peace" is paved in Jewish blood.
Or, as Spock of Vulcan might have put it, "The needs of the Muslims outweigh the needs of the Jews - or anybody else."
[HT: CQ]
posted by JASmius at 1:59 PM
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