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October 24, 2007
Israel Besieged
By Esther Levens
Israel Unity Coalition
The American administration’s new peace initiative in the Middle East is based on wishful thinking.
Late reports tell us that Mahmoud Abbas is making more demands before agreeing to attend the Summit to be sponsored by the US, in Annapolis, MD. Condoleezza Rice is determined to conclude an agreement with Abbas, who will promise “peace” in exchange for every conceivable tangible demand from Israel.
Besides almost all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, half of Jerusalem, the entire Temple Mount, right of return of four million Palestinian refugees, border areas from before the Six Day War, freedom for all PA prisoners, the right to open Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem, return of the terrorists deported from the Church of the Nativity, and immediate retreat to the September 2000 lines (these are the lines from which the Arabs launched the second intifada, in which Yasser Arafat and Abu Mazen's Fatah terrorists killed more than 1,000 Israelis); in addition, they demand the execution of the third stage of the Oslo Accords, an end to building in the settlements, and cessation of the construction of the Mughrabi Bridge in Jerusalem.
Weak Israeli leadership is putting Israel’s future at risk. Since Oslo, Israeli concessions have routinely led to increased violence. Israel is being pressured to return to the 1967 green line, give up land acquired in Arab-initiated wars and accept millions of Palestinian refugees. The United States is propping up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a peace partner, even though he is manipulated by the terrorist organization Hamas, which now controls the Palestinian territories after winning democratic elections.
Israel is threatened from all sides. Iran is waging a proxy war against Israel from both Gaza and Lebanon and openly says they will use a nuclear bomb to destroy the country. Currently, since Israel withdrew from Gaza, Palestinians continue to launch rockets and terrorist attacks into Israel. When Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah amassed thousands of rockets along the border, then provoked a war with Israel. As more land is given to Radical Islamists, this trend will most likely continue.
The original Palestinian refugees numbering in the thousands have grown to 4 million. If Israel admitted them, Jews would quickly become a minority in their own state, which is already 20 percent Arabs who are granted full citizenship rights. No consideration is given the fact that 800,000 Jews (refugees) fled persecution or were expelled from Arab lands after 1945. And of course no mention is ever made of reparations for these refugees.
Israel absorbed the displaced Jewish refugees; at the same time Arab countries forced Palestinian refugees to live in camps on their borders, breeding poverty, hatred and terrorism. To date, the only Arab country that accepts Palestinians as citizens is Jordan. And 70% of the people in Jordan are Palestinians, making Jordan essentially a Palestinian state.
The underlying problem is the fact that the Arab states and their terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, PLO, al aksa Martyrs Brigade, PFLP, etc. do not accept Israel’s right to exist and openly call for her destruction. Israel represents only one front in the Arab Islamists’ war to create an international caliphate
The upcoming Annapolis Summit simply plays into the hands of the ultimate goal to eradicate the State of Israel by creating a 23rd Arab state. If history repeats itself, the new state will doubtless become one more terrorist stronghold in advancing the global Islamic Jihad aimed at world conquest.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at October 24, 2007 09:20 AM
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Robert -- I think this is an exercise in futility. But one that won't do much harm because nothing will come of it.
Even with these concessions, Abbas cannot concede or he will have his throat cut in minutes. He knows this. He even knows who will give the order and carry it out.
Olmert deludes himself that Palestinians, the home of the "Big Man" think Idi Amin in "Last King of Scotland" or real life, are middle class labor organizers like him. So he wants a deal, any deal.
Is Ehud Barak a fool? No. He has personal experience from offering Arafat almost all he wanted and being willing to negotiate on the rest, and seeing what happened -- i.e. Arafat preferred to die of AIDs not his throat cut.
That Barak is not screaming about this should tell you something.
Sharon's move pretty much in my view "liberated" Israel from Oslo and the Road Map. I doubt there is much appetite for continued occupation of Palestinian lands in Israel because it costs lives and the public won't stand for it. Nor removing the wall (because THAT costs lives and the public won't stand for it) or allowing rocketing to go on forever (because that costs lives and the public won't stand for it).
Abbas will predictably walk away and start another intifada. He has to in order to survive. Then Olmert will fall, Barak or Bibi or heck both (weirder things have happened) will form a coalition government and do what everyone mostly wants to do anyway. Get out of costly areas to patrol/occupy. Turn rocketing areas into free-fire zones (plus -- no Israeli troops means no media save obviously faked Palestinian ones) and preparing for the real conflict.
Iran, with proxies Syria and Hezbollah, in both Gaza, Lebanon, and perhaps even the West Bank. A nuclear Iran is an existential threat to Israel. Abbas can be managed. A few meaningless meetings that will do nothing but provoke another "run for survival" by Arafat's successor. Freedom for Israel to get out of the business of patrolling the West Bank (yes the settlements will have to go -- they are not politically sustainable IMHO domestically). And money spent on more missiles, nuke submarines, and possibly UAV vehicles to hit Iranian nuclear targets. That costs money, which will have to come from somewhere.
Abbas's own men tried to assassinate Olmert recently. Olmert may have illusions, but I trust that Barak has none. Unlike Olmert, Barak was a former commando and knows his opponents very well. He's killed enough of them.
I'd go further and say that not even Abbas expects anything other than a means to hold onto the West Bank against the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah-AQ axis. Which might be worth showing up to a meaningless Annapolis meeting for.
The right of return of 4 million Palestinians is not a serious issue. A non-starter in Israel. But the whole thing is designed IMHO to keep the US State Dept. happy, as well as the US press and provide a lifeline for Abbas against a mutual enemy (principally, Iran). I don't expect anything different than in 2000 with Clinton.
Posted by: Jim Rockford at October 25, 2007 12:26 AM