Posted on 06/15/2007 5:53:11 AM PDT by SJackson
The Gaza Strip’s violent transformation this week from PA-controlled territory to gunmen-controlled Hamastan will not, according to the leftist Israeli daily, Haaretz, give Washington any pause in its pursuit of President George W. Bush’s two-state solution to the ‘Palestinian’-Israeli conflict.
On the contrary, reports the paper Friday, Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now plan to try and “fast track” “peace talks” that will see Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) handed over to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas in order to “boost” his battered standing among his people.
The US “aims to accelerate the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to allow Abbas to present some achievments,” Ha’aretz says.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is scheduled to visit the White House next week, “intends to tell Bush that Hamas’ coup d’etat must be contained in the Gaza Strip and not allowed to occur in [Judea and Samaria] as well.”
While many would argue that this is precisely why Israel should immediately shelve any further talk of giving land to the PLO, the US favors exactly the opposite tack.
Haaretz says Washington will urge Israel to reconsider loosening its military grip on the PA-occupied parts of Judea and Samaria, and to unfreeze tax funds being withheld from the PA.
These candies apparently will persuade the Palestinian Arabs that Abbas’ Fatah, and not Hamas, should really be in charge.
Such an approach, as anyone who understands Middle East realities knows, will backfire.
The increasingly popular Hamas is growing its support base precisely because Abbas and his Fatah are seen as stooges of the US.
Any US effort to push ahead with the land-for-peace process in the face of its implosion in Gaza will be looked upon as folly of the worst kind by many in Israel.
As hard as it is to admit the failure of its two-state plan, the mayhem in Gaza, under cover of which the “Palestinians” have successfully established an Islamist terror mini-state, should – observers believe – compel Washington to admit to the bankruptcy of its policy.
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If it were not so serious (and so tragic), I’d be laughing my head off at the State Dept., Baker, Rice, and all the rest, who are still hitched to the delusion that all will be well in the Middle East just as soon as Israel is reduced to a much smaller size; peace and love will break out all over and rainbows will appear in the sky...(must be the water in DC or something...)
To be such an educated and highly experienced official, Condi really is an idiot.
To be such an educated and highly experienced official, Condi really is an idiot.
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I think she clearly knows better, but she is working for the wrong boss.
Americans from all sides of the political spectrum MUST learn the nature of Islam. Winston Churchill did, and he was only 24 when he wrote the following:
Churchill On Islam
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
~A passage from his book “The River War” written by Sir Winston Churchill in 1899 after he had participated in the Sudanese campaign.
ANy and all attempts to reconcile Islam with the West are doomed to failure, due to teh nature of Islam. The only option left to the West is either convert to Islam or accept and actualize “Islam delenda est”.
What is to stop Hamas from eventually taking over the PA in the West Bank too? The PA are corrupt and ineffectual at governing, and have been for decades, and they are terrorists to boot. Why do we keep propping up these criminals and gangsters? Just because they are better than Hamas? They aren’t, they are just slightly less “in your face” about their terrorism and Islamofascism.
>> I think she clearly knows better, but she is working for the wrong boss.
You got the “wrong boss” part right. But I question her competence and I’m not sure she “knows better”. She’s a think-tank academic — “smart” but incapable of running an organization and getting results.
THe fact that she’s sitting atop a vipers’ nest of socialist bureaucrats doesn’t help.
If I were given State to run, the very first thing I’d do is force everyone,under penalty of immediate discharge, to sign an employment agreement that made it clear that “leaking” to the press or writing a “kiss n tell” book would be considered espionage and punished as such.
Then I’d fire about 90% of ‘em anyway and put my own people in. They are so screwed up that getting rid of 90% of the a$$clowns wouldn’t even throw a wrench in the works; I bet the organization would work BETTER!
Carolyn
We should just step back and let them kill each other off.
Time, which they have plenty of, money and arms which both Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood will provide. What's missing is a physical entry point. The US has been pressuring Israel to provide a link to Gaza, but without it they're going to be forced to get Jordan to loosen the border so arms can flow from Syria.
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