Going into Monday’s three-way summit with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas, visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted there was no evidence that the new “Palestinian” unity government was ever going to comply with international demands that it recognize Israel’s right to exist.
That being the case, wouldn’t now be the time to accept that the current Palestinian Arab leadership (Abbas and Hamas and everyone in-between) simply does not represent a viable peace partner for Israel?
Wouldn’t now be the time to accept that the Oslo/Road Map peace process is a failure, and that we need some alternative options?
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February 16th, 2007 · 9 Comments
The United States has a well-known policy (in theory) of not negotiating with terrorists. Unfortunately, that policy often takes a back seat to the politically-correct leanings of liberal politicians seeking to leave a legacy of “peace.”
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February 14th, 2007 · 8 Comments
The IDF got a new chief on Wednesday – Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the 19th man to have the honor of leading the Israel Defense Forces.
By all accounts, Ashkenazi is extremely popular with IDF field commanders. May the Almighty grant him wisdom and strength to go along with that popularity.
He is going to need it.
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A leading Egyptian lawmaker from dictator Hosni Mubarak’s own party suggested on Monday that the Muslim world nuke Israel in order to stop it from doing excavation and renovation work in its own capital.
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Is Prime Minister Ehud Olmert trying to prepare Israelis for the surrender of the Golan Heights to Syria?
On Monday, Olmert explained in detail to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the only thing that would buy Israel peace with Syria would be ceding the entire Golan. He expounded on the issue despite stating that he remains opposed to negotiations with Damascus at this time.
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February 12th, 2007 · 7 Comments
I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, but I would not be at all surprised if Israel’s current renovations outside Jerusalem’s Temple Mount spark a new “Palestinian” terror war.
Remember, the previous “intifada” – dubbed the “Oslo War” by Israelis and the “Al Aqsa Intifada” by the Arabs – was, according to the Arabs, a justified and legitimate response to Ariel Sharon’s 2000 Rosh Hashanah visit to the Temple Mount.
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US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last week belatedly recognized that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) of Mahmoud Abbas may not be a viable peace partner for Israel after all.
Too bad her husband already made that realization completely irrelevant by helping to immutably entrench the PLO den of killers as celebrated, peace-seeking international diplomats.
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The mainstream media is predictably underreporting the Muslim uproar over Israel’s minor renovation work outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
What they are failing to point out is that the work being done is to stabilize the earthen ramp leading to the Mugrabi Gate, the sole access point to the Temple Mount for Jews and Christians.
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February 11th, 2007 · 7 Comments
A mob of Palestinian Arab youth violently attacked a tour bus carrying Canadian pilgrims at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on Saturday.
The attack, which was perpetrated with stones and glass bottles, came amid Muslim riots related to very minor Israeli renovation work on an earthen ramp leading to the Temple Mount.
And the Palestinians wonder why towns such as Bethlehem and Ramallah receive no tourists.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is again playing dumb, publicly asserting that the Palestinians, who can’t even keep from slaughtering themselves, are opposed to the policies of the violently anti-Israel Hamas terrorist organization.
This is really getting old.
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