Palestinians' power shuffle leaves the deck stacked against Israel

Baltimore Sun ^ | June 20, 2007 | Cal Thomas

[SJackson]

ARLINGTON, Va. // The Bush administration's announced goal for Israel and the "Palestinian people" has been two states, living side by side in peace. The administration is two-thirds of the way there. There are now two states - one in Gaza, headed by the militant Hamas organization, which shot its way to power, and another in the West Bank, headed by accused Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas. Unfortunately for Israel, there is no peace, which should not surprise those who have been predicting exactly what is coming to pass. Whatever their names, be they groups such as Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaida, or states such as Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran, their objectives are identical: the annihilation of the democratic Jewish state and the elimination of all Jews, either by death or displacement, from the land. To argue otherwise and to continue believing the fiction that "infidel" diplomats from the State Department or European Union can magically transform people commanded to hate Jews and Israel based on a twisted mandate from their corrupt notion of God, is to be in extreme denial.

[SJackson]

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[livius]

“Power shuffle” - er, excuse me? That’s when one Dem clubhouse boss gets replaced by another after a contentious vote, not something that happens with mortars and machine guns.

I wish we’d quit using euphemisms about these people.

[Carry_Okie]

This quote from the al-Qaida training manual leaves no room for diplomacy: "The confrontation that Islam calls for with these godless and apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machinegun."

Anyone who questions the sincerity of such a statement is a fool. Apparently enough fools remain in leadership in Israel, the United States and Europe to encourage the killers to fight on until victory is attained.

Pretty plain, isn't it?