Pressing for Israel-PA Negotiations? Obama Sets Himself Up for Mideast Failure, Again
Last September, President Barack Obama — with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas standing nearby — said that there would be direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in Washington by November 2009.
It didn’t happen.
The media didn’t ridicule the Obama administration or point to this failure. Too bad. That kind of behavior by the media plays a positive role — in this case, teaching the president to be more circumspect and skeptical about rapid progress. Moreover, the president of the United States should never say that something is going to happen unless he knows that it will happen.
Now, in July 2010, the president is pressing for direct negotiations by the end of September: “And my hope is, is that once direct talks have begun, well before the moratorium [Israeli construction freeze that ends in September] has expired, that that will create a climate in which everybody feels a greater investment in success.”
But is there any reason that this deadline will be met? No.
Israel is eager for direct talks; the PA keeps finding excuses for opposing them. Now it wants Israel to state its positions on borders and security measures before any talks can start. Yet what would happen if Israel did so? The PA would state that they are excessive, and thus refuse to enter direct talks.
True, the U.S. government is putting on some pressure to convince the PA to change its stance. Yet this limited pressure may well not be sufficient. The PA knows that the White House won’t go too far in this effort and will never publicly denounce the PA for its obduracy (whereas it would not hesitate — as we have seen — to criticize Israel).
Thus, the PA has ample reason to believe that if it does nothing, nothing will happen to it.
I think we can forget about the role of the mainstream media – their credibility is down the toilet. The mainstream media is the domain of the naive, the gullible, & the seriously uninformed. Despite their best efforts, support for Israel among the general public has increased.
Obama is a con man – he’ll say just about anything these days, witness the sheer stupidity of his remark that Israelis don’t trust him because of his middle name. The Obama administration & their far-left supporters are sinking as the reality of their failures, misrepresentations, & lies become ever more apparent.
Of far greater interest is exactly what is the strategy of PM Netanyahu? He can’t possibly believe Palestinians want peace. He can’t possibly believe that the two-state solution is in Israel’s interests. I’m no fan of Mr Netanyuahu but he’s no fool.
And I’m sure he knows exactly what Obama is, I can’t believe he has any illusions about Obama’s incompetence & general hostility to Israel & his sympathy for anything ”Islamic” – a slick politician like Netanyahu who has had years of experience in the snake-pit of Israeli politics cannot be naive.
But, for the life of me (& that may be completely accurate!), I can’t figure out what Netanyahu is doing.
Is he stalling for time, does he really plan on going forward with the two-state solution, what about Iran, Syria, & Hezbollah, can he possibly believe his coalition will survive major concessions to the Palestinians? And what about Ehud Barak? Surely, Netanyahu must realize that Barak is a snake, a man in whom no trust is warranted.
Yes, I think he is stalling for time. There is a lot of military planning to do, and a lot of backroom diplomacy that needs to be kept quiet. The less President Obama knows about what’s really going on, the better. Allowing Obama to assume he has successfully pressured Israel serves that purpose quite well. (And, yes, I think he is foolish enough to think that.)
I don’t think there’s much chance that major concessions to the Palestinians will actually be made. I think the talks are just the usual dance, and the result will be the usual stalemate.
The question about Ehud Barak is a serious one. What are the options there? I don’t know much about how your government works. Can Netanyahu replace Barak?
He can’t really replace Barak without bringing in Kadima and Tsippi Livni. He then has to make her Foreign Minister at Lieberman’s expense, so that means both Labor and Lieberman’s party out of the coalition. Once he brings in Kadima, that makes it impossible to bring in any small religious parties, because they can’t coexist with Kadima. I also think Bibi has decided Barak is essential to Israel’s strategic planning. To put it another way, Barak has no strategic sense, but he is a solid military technician.
I think Netanyahu has to operate on two practical tracks regarding Iran, Syria etc. – one (optimistic) that involved real American cooperation, the other, more realistic that involves limited American cooperation and full Israeli investment. And of course, in both cases he must evaluate just how much Obama will try to punish Israel for saving its existence.
Larry.
Actually, he could replace Barak, it would just leave him with a bare majority in the Knesset & of course, he would be very dependant on the religious party, Shas, who would blackmail him for cash for their pet projects, mostly yeshivot filled with unemployed parasites. But, that’s the politicians viewpoint, not a real leader’s viewpoint.
Personally, if it was my call, I’d bounce Barak in a NY minute. Although I haven’t seen any recent polls, I’d even take my chances with another election. Then again, maybe Netanyahu has seen some polls. Nonetheless, I’d still take the risk, a leader has to have confidence in his ability to rally the country behind him. If you want to see the current make-up of the Knesset, there’s an Israeli gov’t. site in English.
This still leaves open the question of Netanyahu’s strategy & I haven’t seen even one good objective analysis.
I’ll check the, Hebrew sites, Terry, for the info. I read Maariv pretty much every day.
Yes, EB should go. However, I think he’s also America’s hook into Bibi, as Glick wrote the other week. Beeb has to regard ol’ Udi as ‘close to Washington’; jettisoning him could make trouble…? Bibi is afraid. I suppose also the urgency of the Iran situation is trumping everything else.
How’s the work/lifestyle thing in Eilat?
You all seem to take it for granted that there is some offer Israel can make, or some wording of a peace settlement that Israel can concoct, or some reason for the Palestinians to negotiate in good faith, that could lead to a peace settlement.
But the harsh reality is that there is no chance whatsoever, not now and not ever, that Abbas or any other Palestinian leader will ever sign any peace settlement with Israel that recognizes Israel’s right to exist. It really doesn’t matter very much if negotiations take place or not since for every offer Israel makes there will be three more Palestinian demands, and for every Palestinian demand that Israel satisfies, there will be ten more demands.
The Palestinians do not want a settlement, the Palestinians do not want peace with Israel, the Palestinians do not want a two state deal, the Palestinians want a one state deal, called Palestine, with no Israel and no Jews.
Can’t you guys figure this out, it is so obvious.
Let me make this easy.
The Palestinians will never ever sign a peace settlement with Israel, never.
The Rabin Oslo catastrophe and the Sharon Disengagement debacle were created by two old and tired, one a drunk, Israeli leaders. Both Rabin and Sharon knew full well that the Palestinians would never negotiate in good faith to reach a settlement with Israel and that their time was running out. Thus rather than engage in what they knew would be useless, longwinded, and ultimately unproductive negotiations they simply carried out a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and the various large Palestinian towns, acts which they knew would cement their places in the history books and give them the international fame they so desperately wanted.
Were these withdrawals stupid, dangerous, and precedent setting? Of course, and are we Israelis still living with their consequences, to my great sorrow, yes we are.
“You all seem to take it for granted that there is some offer Israel can make, or some wording of a peace settlement that Israel can concoct, or some reason for the Palestinians to negotiate in good faith, that could lead to a peace settlement.”
I completely agree. The Palestinian leaders are not honest brokers. They will settle for nothing less then the elimination of Israel. I long ago concluded that the problems in the Middle East cannot be resolved until the hard core radicals are either killed or jailed. That’s the beginning and end of it. I see no reason to change my mind.
Larry in the Silicon.
Ehud Barak is like a character from a really bad 1950′s Cold War spy movie, a double-agent who, from lack of principles, bad character, & sheer opportunism, betrays both sides. Total slime.
Maariv is pretty left-wing, not much different than Haaretz. Try Ynet, there’s an English version & a Hebrew site.
Eilat is very very very quiet. And very very very hot. The beachfront is beautiful, some very nice cafes. I don’t work but it’s very hard to find a good job in Eilat, it’s basically a beach with hotels although it’s grown a lot even in the last five years.
From my terrace, I can see the Red Sea on one side along with Egypt & Jordan, the Eilat Mountains in the other direction.
I can imagine many strategies for Netanyahu, but all my scenarios have flaws & contradictory evidence, I can only imagine what I would do but I come from such a different political culture, not Western nor Israeli, I much better understand our enemies.
Ken Besig. Sir, what could possibly have given you the impression that I think peace is in any way, shape, or form possible or even desirable?
What happens when Netanyahu proves he is for a two-state solution and Abbas shows he is against it in practice? Will the West put heavy pressure on the PA? Will it swing to a strong pro-Israel policy?
This administration will file suit against Israel, saying…”If we can sue our own citizens for protecting our own borders from invasion, we most certainly can sue you to make your borders just as porous as our own”
Let’s speak plainly here. America used to be a beacon of light, warmth, safety and security for Israel. Today…not so much.
Israel as a nation is on the wrong side of the worldwide leftist “message”. It is distinguished as having achieved Most Disfavored Nation status. At the U.N. (the left’s morals without borders), there is a resolution being prepared that makes Israel the “permanent offender” thereby eliminating the need to dream up some new excuse to condemn her. We can simply assume she is being “written up” and save the trees from being killed to pass another finely articulated offense of giving poor mortar shells no place to land on the ground, for all the heads that get in the way each day.
We used to stand against this broad farce, we used to bang our heads against the wall and point at the inconsistency, the naked fraud…but, no longer.
See, we really don’t give a damn. About Israel. About Britain. About Columbia.
We are busy pressing reset buttons.
We can’t be bothered by old friends who are out of vogue with our new friends. When you dream the dreams of your father, if he was a Socialist, you dream socialist dreams. If he hated Jews and Brits, your dreams and reset buttons are pressed against them. If you learned at the knee of Frank Marshall Davis, and in the pews of Jeremiah Wright…the Jews and the Brits were given a “special place” in the sermons.
If Louis Farrakhan was being feted, or Edward Said…and you sat with Rashid Khalidi, your reset buttons were being primed to be pushed.
Jesse Jackson said “the change is gonna come”. This time, he didn’t say “from Hymietown”. It appears…he didn’t have to…
The politically correct nations of the West refuse to put pressure on the Palestinians. The latter are perceived as dark skinned victims of racist Israel. This position is utterly ridiculous, but nonetheless widely held. I see no chance of it changing anytime in the near future. White guilt threatens the very foundations of Western Civilization. It is not wise to pretend otherwise. We will then have inadvertently created a vacuum that will likely be filled by despicable folks like David Duke.
The facts are simple; Israel is in its historic homeland and has an absolute right to that area. Israel is under attack by a persistent and dis-honest enemy whose single objective is and always has been to wipe Israel off the map.
For this reason Israel has insisted that before peace talks can begin their enemies and the international community must recognize Israel as a legitimate soverign state and specify that Israel has an historic right to the area it now occupies
the enemies of Israel have always refused to assert such recognition as they will not renounce their intention to wipe Israel off the map
In the face of these conditions Israel MUST hold the strongest possible defensive positions and this includes the West Bank and the Golan Heights. This is non negotiable as a paper defense is not sufficient in of a determined and dishonest enemy. Remember that dishonesty is approved by Islam where necessary when fighting the un-believers.
Is O’Blah-Blah aware of this? Of course.
Remember what George Orwell said on this topic: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity”
That a peace process exists is a pathetic delusional charade; that the American public listens to this rubbish; that the Maim Stream Media” publishes this as serious news…
There is no peace process (c 1989 me “Arafat wants peace by piece by piece”; delivered to every member of congress)
Abbas is rarely/never physically present west of the Jordan river; ( Abbas mostly stays in Europe)…and Abbas has not and can not set foot in Gaza…and does not represent Gaza and could not deliver on anything he signed.
Netanyahu is just “being on record as ready, willing and able for peace” just in case he has to (in Obama’s words) kick some…
The so called “peace process” is in fact just a process and will never be accomplished. Israel doesn’t need peace with the Palestinians thank you very much. Israel has thrived and the Palis are in perpetual disaray and constantly saved by the liberal politically correct West. As long as a “process” is ongoing, Obama and friends will be satisfied and Netanyahu will continue to placate them by giving lip service to the process. Until the Mulahs start preaching peace and tolerance of the infidel from their pulpits there will be no peace anywhere. The day that that happens will probably be the day that the Seti project makes contact with alien beings from another planet.
obama is mentally ill. his illness is that he does not know it.
Here are two cartoons that might help explain why Obama has not or probably will not be able to bring peace to this area of the world. It’s hard to help foster peace when your actions show that you heavily favor one side.
“Moon Rock Stoning” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/politics/ Shows what happens when you instruct NASA to reach out to Muslim Nations.
“Did you Get Dinner” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/netanyahu-and-the-dalai-lama-discuss-their-white-house-visits/ shows what happened with Netanyahu first visited the White House.
Well, it may be a shame for the US President to be wrong about certain things. but on the other hand he really can’t be sure, can he? Israel and Palestine have been enemies for so many years and their behavior is rather unpredictable. There’s little Obama can do about it. Bu as he puts it himself, “he hopes”. He doesn’t promise anything, does he?
The only surprise on this issue is if they actually made any real progress. And most people just cannot see that happening any time soon. But you never know… its been a few decades since the last breakthrough so maybe its time for another one. Who knows?… good article, thanks.
The Palistinians know Obama is lying to Israel as he lies to the American people all the time. Israel knows this too. Muslims feel justified in lying to their enemies, so does the president and his cronies. Obama has been lying and buying time for the Iranian bomb since he entered office. Judging by the people Obama has surrounded himself with (Anti-Semites) and where he sat for twenty years in the pews of Rev. Wright you can bet they all will try and find a way to satisfy their hatred of the Jews.
Let us all pray that these enemies of Israel and America destroy themselves by their actions and the innocent are spared from the destruction that is sure to come as the result of evil men having the power of government.
All the evidence for this hatred is as plain as the nose on your face and there is no justifiable excuse for fence sitting any longer. We are either lovers of truth and righteousness or we are haters and killers, the gray fog has lifted for all except the willfully blind.
O is a total failure with international relations. Even Warren Harding & James Buchananon were experts compared to him. He is a child trying to do a man’s job & proving daily how incredibly incompetent he is.
2 or 3 years reality will set in & most people will wake up & smell the coffee (this is excluding all of the West coast & New England. Finally, people will see how he sold out the USA for a handful of dirt.
Ken, you’re not a good reader. If you had read my posts, even a few of them, over the past weeks, you would know I already agree with you. Go ahead, scratch that itch.
Good god Girtie what a bash, didn’t he say Gitmo is closed, to happen by last January, a human zoo we actually have some control over? It’s still open for business, just like the Israeli Arab conflict. The Arab principals claim to want peace and recognize the legitimacy of Israel in English, but then say just the opposite when speaking Arabic to their compadres. The conflict will continue as long as it remains religiously motivated by traditional Muslims acting Muslim. Let them declare unilateral independence and create another Arab state. I hope the UN recognizes that state, which absolves Israel and the West of any responsibility for funding the new Arab state. At least with the new Arab state you have an address for which to deliver the munitions in payback for the state and its citizen’s acts of war. I predict the Arabs wont declare a state, ’cause they have it too good living off the dole provided by the West, and they could no longer piss and moan about Jewish occupation–at least until their next stupid in public acts of war for the next round. Oh, didn’t he say engaging with Syria and groveling with Iran would yield some negotiating leverage by calling off their dogs? The first rule of dog fights, don’t send a pussy cat.
What’s the common definition for ‘insanity’? I believe it is ‘performing the same failed task over and over again, and expecting a different outcome next time’.
It seems to describe too many people in Washington D.C., these days.
Why is no one asking what the Israelis want? Maybe they want another round of peace negotiations with the PA. Why should the American neocons step in the way of peace?
I do not believe that the people living in the “Terrirtories” are capable of self-government. They have been brain-washed & animalized by the death-cult mafia dons who rule them, and they have been living on the dole for generations now. The notion that the “Palestinians” could ever attain to responsible nationhood is a delusion. The only workable solution is to cede the West Bank to Jordan, and the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Israel has a working relationship with both of those Arab nations, as does the U.S. (or at least we used to not so long ago). The problem is that neither Egypt nor Jordan wants to accept the burden of taking care of these people. They would rather just continue using them to their own geopolitical and domestic ends.
Terry and others up-thread wondered what Bibi is waiting for. maybe he’s waiting for the next round of flotilla ships? if Israel has to protect herself by killing more “peace activists,” and the world has a similar reaction to the last time, then according to me anyway it’d be a perfect time to go in and take care of Iran’s nukes.
the world is going to hate Israel no matter what. they should protect themselves.
Barry Rubin: Sorry, but I think your analysis demonstrates the success of the Obama strategy:
Obama seeks to pretend Israel is why Islime hates “us”; and Obama tries to pretend we are not at war with Islime (which should tip you off); even as Obama apologies to Islime for…our not understanding: “accepting” Islime.
That we are not at war with Islime, from his perspective, is of course true; How can he be at war with his own ideology?
The aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf are not there to intimidate or attack the dictators in Iran that parade as religious; they are there to defend the regime…from all comers… including Israel…
My analysis is better than yours and explains what we observe…and allows one to predict what is coming because “you have the play book”…
Now, let us see you admit you are wrong…Oh, not till you hear it from Johnny or Susie..
Oh, if you still think, after 30 years, the US really wants to attack Iran…you are delusional!
obama is the head of a cult-like political group. The cult leader can say east is west and they bow. He can say up is down and they bow. So I don’t believe for a moment that he is “setting himself up for failure”. Failure or success don’t figure into his thinking. Failure doesn’t hurt him and success doesn’t enhance him, because the continuation of his power and the worship of followers are not dependent on successful performance. Hasn’t anybody been paying attention to the last 18 months? He doesn’t care “how things go” with Israel. As long as he has enough of the Congress afraid enough of him that they don’t do their Constitutional duty on our behalf, he truly does not measure his plans by their potential for successful. It’s laughable to think that he would. Success in real diplomacy is the LAST thing he wants. That might actually stabilize things for America around the world, and we can’t have that. Or hadn’t you noticed?
I am convinced Obama is committed to destroy the US in every way he can.
Ken’s right. It isn’t a real-estate issue but a symptom of a tumor that goes way back. Netanyahu said it too, in between office. Most in the ME are afflicted. Given the mindset in Washington, Netanyahu is Israel’s best bet.
One November morning we’ll wake up to hear Israel paralyzed Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In a pincer move it’ll bloody its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah. Remembering the September 2007 event, Syria will freeze. The ME and the radical world will be relieved of the tumor, albeit temporarily, just as they were when Iraq’s experiment was foiled.
Netanyahu will take Obama out too.
Terry, I take your point. I only read Maariv because it helps me brush up on my Hebrew, which I expect to be using daily in a few months.
I also agree with your assessment of your understanding of the ME versus an ‘American’ or ‘Israeli’ one. Not only do Jews I know here think I’m completely off-base in my opinions about how Israel should address its security needs, so do the majority of Israelis whom I’ve ‘shared with.’ So be it. I studied the history in both university and grad school, and evolved from a leftist position. I studied the history of Israel and the role of Labour as well (it’s ‘Labour’ in ‘Hebrew’
). Martin Buber had more to do with the mindset of many early Halutzim than Raful Eitan; if you get my drift.
As to Barak – agreed. He plays the Israelis off against the Americans, for the benefit of Barak.
Tommy Peters, I hope you’re right. I think you are mostly right, anyhow.
I just noticed your post but I have to go out, coffee with a friend on the beachfront.
I’m already late. We’ll continue our discussion on the next article of our favourite subject. Shavua tov.
Larry, off course you mean IDF Eitan not Mossad Eitan (my hero) who collared Eichmann. Could you do a comparison between Dayan and Barak as politicians and ‘military technicians’ (to borrow the phrase), given Dayan had to work with Meir of another party.
Yes, Tommy. Raful versus Rafael; Raful being the fairly straight-shooting part-Cossack CoS and politician; Rafael being the Mossad guy. I once met Raful Eitan. It was a frightening experience in a semi-comical sort of way. The fear I felt was a good indication of what that type of Israeli can do to nervous Arabs.
Wow, Dayan and Barak. No real comparison. First, Dayan was a leader, though he too was of the Labour school, and had little understanding of the need to assert Jewish primacy over critical sites like Har Habayit, the Temple Mount. Still, he understood Arabs, knew Arabic, felt an intrinsic tie with the Land of Israel in an old-fashioned, secular sort of way. That is, the Tanach/Bible lived in Moshe Dayan. Of course, he was also a miserable womanizer. But anyhow – Dayan grew up in the Palmach. He was one of the elite young Israelis who was trained by one of the true founders of Israel, the Scottish
(?) Britisher Orde Wingate, a deeply religious who founded the Palmach. It is an acronym that stands for Plugot Machatz, Strike Companies. They raided into Arab territory, and they defended the countryside of Israel, beginning in the 1930s. Wingate understood that Israel would have to fight for its life one day, the minute it declared statehood – really, before this. Dayan and people like Yigal Alon, who became one of B-G’s generals in the Milchemet Ha’atzmaut/Independence War were among Wingate’s pupils. Yigal Alon – a fine man, later Foreign Minister of Israel, a kibbutznik from the Sea of Galilee. These were the Salts of the Earth types.
Dayan was of course a pol from the outset, making grand use of the eyepatch. He of course made lots of enemies. Rabin and Weizmann prepared the army for an extension of Wingate’s philosophy, which came to materialization in 1967. Dayan was out of the army, supposedly out of politics. He was recruited back in as Defense Minister. When Yitzhak Rabin had a nervous breakdown before the Six Day War, Dayan’s profile grew. In reality, Ezer Weizmann took over when Rabin failed, and people like Sharon and many others did the real work. But Dayan rallied the people. He was either DM or FM inh ’73. There he and Golda made the decision to listen to threats from Nixon/Kissinger and failed to preempt the Syrians and Egyptian, though they knew several days before 6 October what was coming. Nixon threatened Israel with isolation if it did not absorb the first blow. My cousin and many others died as a result. A friend of mine lost his entire leg, and many times I watched and tried to help when he struggle with his prosthetic. He alone survived from a group of four tanks and their crews who got surrounded in Sinai by 200 Egyptian tanks…Dayan’s nerve failed then, I think. Then he became a dove, more reluctant than Ezer Weizmann, who became very corrupt.
We can evaluate Dayan also in terms of our view of the Camp David Accords. I suppose they were necessary, mostly because Israel’s economy was in desperate shape then. But they gave away much too much. Few Israelis have figured out how to negotiate with the Arabs and their American interlocutors.
Ehud Barak. I guess I’ll save him for another post. I am tired. I had an outing with my Mom today, and I am tired.
Yeah, I’ll pass on the Barak analysis for now. Too much heartburn arises.
Thank you for the gems on Dayan, the angle, his weaknesses etc. We have a phrase when Israel is not clinical with neighbors ‘if only Dayan was in charge’ – and for pointing out Wingate. He’s my next vocation.
Larry, a theological cloak emanating next door to where you are is enveloping Malaysia, where I am. I realized its presence when a fella, who actions officialdom supported, threw himself on a train track to protest Herzog dropping in Singapore. The thing is, 7th century radicalism has a long reach and co-relates to a weak Israel, besides your Channel 2 is no help (No wonder BO chose it for footage).
Foot soldiers like you, Ken and others help keep fire in the PM linear and big brother’s legacy is certainly a stoker. I never fail to mention Entebbe when the subject arises and how silly Waldheim sounded after 34 years, the way Ki Moon will sound in future.
I must have missed the Entebbe anniversary on Pajamas.
Thanks, Tommy. Both Dayan and Wingate were fascinating characters. I think Wingate was one of the founders of the State of Israel.
Thank you too for your steadfastness and encouragement.
wouldn’t it be nice if the came to term and made you far right winger look as stupid as you act lol
Obama never seems to understand that we are war with the Muslims.
Israel is the ally, the Muslims are the enemy. Repeat 1,000 times, Barry.
Just recently an Iranian Revolutionary Guard spy for us told us exactly what Iran is going to do.
They are planning a massive attack on the US, Israel and even the Gulf Arab states.
Barry is out playing golf.
Figures.
http://jewishdailyreport.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/iran-plans-massive-attack-on-israel-america-and-uae-says-spy/
Dear Hershl,
I am afraid that Barack Obama’s hostility and animosity towards Israel is entirely personal, something he picked up in his Moslem youth in Indonesia and from his New Left hate Israel parents. Obama had a twenty year association with Reverend Wright, a notorious anti Semite, and yet Obama claims to have never heard the Reverend utter an anti Jewish or anti Israel statement. Obama probably didn’t hear anything anti Semitic from Wright because he felt that Wright was just stating the simple truth about the Jews.
If you get a chance, Dr. Barry Rubin wrote an excellent and insightful column for the Jerusalem Post yesterday which describes Obama and his feelings towards Israel perfectly. It is well worth the time.
In reality there is no peace possible, as the peace process is taqiyya, a charade to weaken Israel and to turn the world against her. Muhammad said war is deceit. The reality is the Dar al Islam’s Palestinian proxy’s jihad against Israel is permanent and will continue until either Israel is eventually destroyed, or otherwise the Dar al Islam is rendered too weak to continue jihad. Meanwhile, all those that force the peace process upon Israel are convenient useful idiots in reality cutting their own necks on they are too stupid to know it.
over the past several months, i have seen the figures for the GNP of Israel. I have read of the contributions of Israel to the world without getting anything in return. Israel must stop bending over backwards to kiss the behinds of a world that will always hate it. the spirtit of Masada must be the new policy. Israel does not need anyone . let it stand back and destroy any nation that wants to destroy it. let it warn all of the nations of the world that any attempt to re[eat the holocaust may cause a global holocaust.
If Obama is not capable to honestly address or sincerely discuss race relations or playing the race card in America, how is it possible to believe Obama’s skills of addressing global tensions will be any more successful ?