Posted on 08/29/2003 2:48:18 AM PDT by kattracks
Every few years or so during the last half-century, the United States, Israel and their few allies have presented a peace plan to end the Arab-Israel war. None of the plans has ever ended even a single battle, and not one has ever been implemented. The plans invariably propose that the terrorists who have murdered so many soldiers and dozens of times more civilians dismantle their weapons and training camps. But terrorists learned long ago that their greatest weapon is the murder bomb thrown into a bus or school or restaurant - almost any place where they can take Jews by surprise.The terror bomb is always a weapon with far more reach than its explosive power. It is cheap. It is mobile. It can tear human beings apart - not only their bodies but their minds, whether they are its targets or fear they will be.
A few months ago, some of the big brains of the world presented a complicated plan that they called a "road map toward peace in the Middle East." The leaders were the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. Among the provisions for peace was a requirement that the Palestinian Arabs "dismantle the terrorist infrastructure."
Since the Palestinian Arabs depend on their terrorist infrastructure - as do the governments of almost all the Arab states - the provision to destroy terrorism was a thigh-slapper. It was only a couple of weeks until Hamas blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing more than 20 Jews, including very small child-type Jews.
The road map, of course, is dead, which I expected. So did everybody with a sliver of a brain. This does not shake the souls of the terrorists, whose infrastructure has not been dismantled one screw.
And France now says organizations like Hamas, the leading Palestinian terrorist organization - it actually boasted of blowing up that bus in Jerusalem - is not a terrorist organization after all. France is staunch against terrorists - once in a while.
For the past few days, I have been talking to leading officials and diplomats of a batch of countries that had put their collective brains into that ridiculous map to nowhere. I cannot use their names for the time being, but what they had to say, unanimously, without quibbling, astonished me.
I asked them what comes next, what version of the road map mess would be put forward now. Separately and without knowing who the others being questioned were, they said that almost all these meetings and agreements had brought us nothing except lots and lots of trouble.
They think the Arabs will go on every day telling the world how much they hate Jews and how much they want to kill them all.
Martha Gellhorn, the noted American author and journalist, said this in "The Face of War": "I think that if Israel did not exist, the Arab leaders would have to invent it. It is the single imaginary enemy that unifies all their people. The Muslims of the Middle East quarrel among themselves, mistrust, assassinate, plot coups, change alliances, kill each other with ferocious energy; they can agree on nothing except their nourishing hatred for the Jews of Israel."
The Palestinian Arab goal has always been the same: no Jews of Israel, no maps of Israel, no Israel.
Originally published on August 29, 2003
Who otherwise would be unified against their corrupt and destructive leaders who suck all the worth out of their people and blame the Jews.
Shalom.
It makes you wonder just what is it exactly that constitues the "terrorist infrastructure" and just how far would that "dismantling" go?....right down to what their kids learn at school?...their religion?
Because until it comes down to these types of bottom line issues there will be no peace...regardless of who promises what.
Not to belittle this daily tragedy but in reality these plans for peace are little more than rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
God bless
Yeah, that's what Mom used to say when we were playing with pointed objects......
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