Obama's Wobbliness Is a Great Danger to Israel
Obama's rhetoric only emboldens terrorists
Israeli President Shimon Peres remains constructive. As someone who has long worked for accommodation, there is force in his argument that stubborn mindsets can be transcended only by an imaginative leap beyond tinkering with peace plans. He instances Egypt's President Anwar Sadat's dramatic peacemaking journey to Jerusalem, which diminished old fears and put an end to the history of suspicion. The turning point in Israel's relations with Jordan was when King Hussein visited the families of seven Israeli girls who had been murdered by a Jordanian soldier.
Peres believes that a regional peace, supported by the other Arab countries, would have the same transforming effect. He supports the Arab initiative, though he says that because "Israel did not take part in the wording of the Arab peace initiative, [it] therefore should not be expected to accept its every word."
Israelis are prepared to meet the Palestinians without preconditions. And the Palestinians? Ho, hum. Abbas intends to be passive and wait for the United States to force concessions from Israel.
The contrast could not be clearer.
An English wag was premature in declaring that "all the 'isms' are wasisms." In the 20th century, fascism came and went; communism came and went; socialism came and waned. But several isms inhabit the world today. Anti-Americanism is one; so, too, is anti-Zionism. These isms of hatred and destruction are graffiti on the walls of history.
Reader Comments
Obama and Israel
It's time for pro-Isr
ael conservatives to pressure the Administration, through petitions, letters and demonstrations, to show some decent concern for Israel. The President is deaf to pleas but responds to pressure.
I belong to the San Francisco Voice for Israel. We face an ugly and raucous group of enemies in our counter-demonstrations. However, the leaders, and most of the membership, of this group are liberal Democrats, and I don't think they'd ever protest anything Obama did. And for the most part the media ignore us, while giving much sympathy to our enemies, especially International Answer.
Someone needs to stop the onslaught before it's too late.
Muslim TERROR State Reduces Israel at Mid-section to 9 Miles Wide INDEFENSIBLE Borders
To Rj of OH - From cradle to grave, Palestinian Authority Muslims are taught to hate and MURDER Jews and MAKE WAR - the phony "peace" promised Israel!
Hamas/PA Target JEWISH INNOCENTS. Israel Targets Terrorists
Israel sends truck loads of food, medical and other supplies into Gaza. Israeli hospital treats Gaza patients in urgent need.
An Israeli hospital treated a young Muslim woman-she returned strapped with a bomb belt to blow up amongst the Jewish doctors and nurses who helped her.
Israel warns Gaza civilians by leaflets, loudspeakers and telephone calls to evacuate battle areas.
ACJ - Vilified: TELLING LIES ABOUT ISRAEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op5vT3vnfOk
Hamas TV video teaches that bombs that kill Israelis are more precious to an Arab mother than her children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBNRVgq59Y
Hamas Member of Parliament Fathi Hammad, February 29, 2008 on Al-Aqsa TV that for PA Arabs, "death has become an industry at which women excel… The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children."
Translated by MEMRI, Hammad : "This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: 'We desire death like you desire life.'"
Religious HATE and Religious MURDER of Jews and other non-Muslims is taught in mosques worldwide.
Palestinian Authority Muslims CELEBRATE Murder of 3,000 Americans 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k
The Islamo Fascists commit war crimes: they use human shields; hide behind women and children; wage war from densely populated areas, store and fire rockets from residential buildings, schools, hospitals and mosques to deliberately MAXIMISE Arab injuries and deaths so that when Israel fires back in self defense and accidently kills civilians, the Islamics scream to the world, but the blood of the Arabs is on the heads of the Islamo Fascists.
There has not been a single Muslim street demonstration to protest the cruel, massive Islamic attacks on non-Muslims in New York, Bali, India, Phillipines, Israel, London, Beslan, Madrid and more.
The Palestinian Authority hailed as heroes the terrorists who brutally murdered defenseless 8 months pregnant Jewish mother, Tali Hatuel, and 4 little daughters in Gush Katif in May 2004.
Muslim killers of Jewish children are adored-Palestinian Authority newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida called savage child-killer Kuntar "a beacon of light" and an "authentic role model." PLO/Palestinian Authority leader, Abbas, called Kuntar a hero. Syria's Assad said Kuntar was chief among honorable men and awarded Kuntar Syria's highest medal, the Syrian Order of Merit.
mortimer zuckerman's comments about Obama's rhetoric
I'm glad that Mr Zuckerman has spoken out against President Obama's unfortunate rhetoric, not only in his Cairo speech, but subsequently, declaring the settlements to be "illegal." Yet the right of the Jewish people to the biblical land of Israel has been recognized by the entire world community, as manifest in the Balfour Declaration, and the League of Nations' establishment of the British Mandate, under which Britain, which unfortunately failed to do so, was tasked with keeping the land in trust for the Jewish people. Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were liberated by Israel during its defensive war with Egypt and Jordan. Those territories had been opportunistically snatched by Egypt and Jordan, who had no legal sovereignty over them, nor did they create a Palestinian state there when they had the opportunity, possibly because at that time the Palestinians were considered part of the Arab nation, along with all the Arabs in their separate 21 countries. In fact the name Palestinian comes from the Romans, who renamed Judea Palestine as an insult to the Jews whom they had defeated. (Palestine was Latin for the Phillistines, ancient Israel's traditional enemies.) The Palestinian refugees who have been used as pawns by their leaders since 1948, could have been assimilated into the other Arab nations long ago, just as Israel assimilated the essentially equal number of displaced Jews who had to flee their homes in the Middle East after the creation of the Jewish state. So, I applaud Mr Zuckerman for reprimanding our president for undermining the Jewish national right to its one and only homeland.
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