Mark Steyn: Failure to solve Palestinian question empowers Iran

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 23, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[prairiebreeze]

New tagline addition.

[sine_nomine]

So why isn't this guy UN Secretary? I wish he were.

[Vinomori]

BUMP for rare lucidity.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

They feel paternalistic towards them.

And now they risk being a victim of patricide.

[ArGee]

Gotta love the imagery!

Well, if you're gonna use imagery, how about when Calvin and Hobbes are standing over a recumbent snowman and commanding "Live, LIVE!". In the final panel, the snowman is chasing them across the yard.

The "Snow Goon" first mutates himself into something repulsive, then creates more. Calvin is trapped in his own yard.

Shalom.

[AnnaZ]

Steyn is so brilliant, to read him is almost painful. God bless him and his pen.

[Savage Beast]

The Europeans have gotten in bed with the devil thinking they're going to get a good night's sleep.

[aculeus]

BTTT

[Jim Noble]

Failure to Solve the Palestinian Question

And what question is that?

You can't give an answer without a proper question.

So, WHAT'S THE QUESTION?

[DCPatriot]

It's criminal that Mark Steyn's take isn't mandatory reading at the daily White House briefings.

[AnnaZ]

So true. How about this for 2008? Rice/Steyn. (Oh, one can dream...)

Or, just have him write the press releases. If he can write columns for three countries, surely a few talking points a week won't overtax him.

= )

[expatguy]

ditto

[ModelBreaker]

The Europeans have gotten in bed with the devil thinking they're going to get a good night's sleep.

As did we. Arafat in the white house.

[mylife]

For the first quarter-century of Israel's existence, the Arab states fought more or less conventional wars against the Zionists, and kept losing. So then they figured it was easier to anoint a terrorist movement and in 1974 declared Yasser Arafat's PLO to be the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," which is quite a claim for an organization then barely half-a-decade old. Amazingly, the Arab League persuaded the U.N. and the EU and Bill Clinton and everyone else to go along with it and to treat the old monster as a head of state who lacked only a state to head

But Saudi-Egyptian-Jordanian opportunism on Palestine has caught up with them: It's finally dawned on them that a strategy of consciously avoiding resolution of the "Palestinian question" has helped deliver Gaza, and Lebanon and Syria, into the hands of a regime that's a far bigger threat to the Arab world than the Zionist Entity. Cairo and Co. grew so accustomed to whining about the Palestinian pseudo-crisis decade in decade out that it never occurred to them that they might face a real crisis one day: a Middle East dominated by an apocalyptic Iran and its local enforcers, in which Arab self-rule turns out to have been a mere interlude between the Ottoman sultans and the eternal eclipse of a Persian nuclear umbrella. The Zionists got out of Gaza and it's now Talibanistan redux. The Zionists got out of Lebanon and the most powerful force in the country (with an ever-growing demographic advantage) are Iran's Shia enforcers. There haven't been any Zionists anywhere near Damascus in 60 years and Syria is in effect Iran's first Sunni Arab prison bitch. For the other regimes in the region, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria are dead states that have risen as vampires.

If the Nations of the ME do not defend themselves from radical islam they will fall to it. Islam is truely like a cancer. If Karzai and Maliki and the rest dont get serious the entire region could go up in flames

[Jalapeno]

Thx for the ping. Excellent commentary.

[mylife]

"white man's burden."

funny thing, I was just thinking of that very kipling piece while reading this article

[Lurker]

This is one time I'm going to quibble with Mr. Steyn.

There is no such thing as a 'palestinian'. There are Egyptian arabs, Syrian arabs, and Jordanian arabs. But there is not and God willing there never will be any such thing as a 'palestinian.'

L

[ClaireSolt]

Egyptians and Syriuans are Muslims, but they are not arabs.

[grey_whiskers]

Iran bids to become a world superpower and if it gets the bomb it will be one.

Only in their wet dreams.

The first nuke on Israeli or US soil and we will obliterate them.

If a Democrat is in the White House, and he does nothing, he will be removed from office. And on down the line, until we get to the Postmaster General.

Don't screw with the US Postal Service!

[grey_whiskers]

Link doesn't work on Calvin and Hobbes, you scoundrel.