Palestinian Arab leader Mahmoud Abbas, the one everyone loves to call “moderate,” sent a warm greeting to Iranian demagogue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week to mark the anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
More worrying than the letter itself, however, is this line contained within:
It always astonishes me how the international community simply refuses to take the Arabs at their word. Talk about racism!
For example, the Bush administration continues to insist that the “Palestinian” general public wants peace with Israel based on the “two-state vision.”
The “Palestinians” themselves are doing their best to refute that claim, but no one is listening!
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
So, the media is all abuzz over Olmert’s meeting yesterday with Abbas, and the silly notion that the coming together of the impotent “Palestinian” leader and admittedly fatigued Israeli premier is somehow going to lead to a final peace settlement.
Lost among the escalating violence in the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories is the fact that the present situation is the direct result of the Palestinian Arabs democratically deciding that they want the worst of the terrorists among them to be their leaders.
Israel, America, Europe, everybody pressed the Palestinian Authority to allow true democratic elections. And then the general public overwhelmingly elected Hamas.
The globally-acclaimed ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in and around Gaza is death in disguise for the residents of southern Israel. And it’s not even a very good disguise, nor is it a new one.
Nevertheless, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insists Israel is strong enough to take the chance and see if this time will be different:
“Israel is a strong country which can allow itself to have the strength to both fight and to also show restraint and to give the ceasefire the possibility to succeed.”
Later, Olmert told reporters:
“All of these things ultimately could lead to one thing – the opening of serious, real, open and direct negotiations between us so that we can move forward towards a comprehensive agreement between us and the Palestinians.”
Right. And who pays the price when you are wrong? The same people who have been paying the price for these ludicrous policies for more than a decade now, that’s who.
