Driving to work this morning, I passed a sign that read “Assad is waiting for Olmert to make peace.”
It never ceases to amaze me that all the Arabs have to do to “prove” they want peace is utter a few semi-conciliatory words in English, while Israel is required to give something tangible or risk being viewed as an obstacle to peace.
In an interview with The Jerusalem Post this week, British Ambassador to Israel Tom Phillips contended that Israel’s negative image in Britain and the world stems from it being an “occupying power.” He couldn’t be more wrong.
With the Lebanon war behind us, and Israeli politicians trying to do anything to divert attention from the damning Winograd Commission findings, the lie that Israel must surrender its Arab-dominated biblical heartland in order to survive as both a Jewish state and a democracy is again a favorite topic of discussion.
Don’t believe the hype eagerly disseminated by the mainstream media that the Palestinian Arabs are totally united in their desire to end the so-called “Israeli occupation.”
Geopolitical assessments regarding the possibility of war spewed by United Nations officials are about as useful as bestowing Nobel Peace Prizes on Islamic terrorists.
It is in no one’s interests to create a welfare state anywhere in the world. But that is precisely what the international community is trying feverishly to accomplish with the division of the Land of Israel and the creation of a Palestinian Arab state.
Every indication is that “Palestine” would be wholly dependent on international handouts and Israel’s economic infrastructure for its survival. In short, it would be a “sovereign state” only in name.
Well, I started a new job this week at the Jerusalem-based news magazine Israel Today.
The takeover of an empty home in Hebron by new Jewish landlords and their tenants has presented yet another opportunity to unmask the wretchedness and racism of Palestinian Arab society toward those it claims to seek peace with.
The new “Palestinian” unity government is only a few days old, but Hamas on Monday wasted no time in implementing the power-sharing regime’s deceptively malicious platform.
Nimr Hamad, a spokesman for PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas, stated Thursday that the new Hamas-Fatah unity government and its newly-released platform accurately represent all Palestinian Arabs, and if Israel refuses to make peace with that government then it refuses to make peace with the “Palestinians” in general.
He is absolutely right.
The new government and its platform do in fact accurately represent the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs.
