Posted by
Green Faerie on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:47:36 PM
What is it about every U.S. president since Carter and the delusion that some good ol' fashioned American diplomacy can singlehandedly solve "the mideast crisis," a polite and morally relativistic euphemism for the Arab/Islamic world's 59-year war on Israel? It's like the Greek myth of Tantalus, the poor schlub condemned for all eternity to have grapes dangling just out of his reach and water that ducks down just out of reach as he wants to drink it. Every administration, Democrat or Republican, thinks it has the magical solution that will bring hugs, kisses, and the Nobel Prize its way.
And every single time, it ends the same way. Israel--whether it's led by a center-right or center-left government at the time--makes concessions in return for intangible promises from the Palestinians, who never keep them. The Palis make excuses and then make more demands. More splodeydopes kill innocents on Israeli buses and in busy streets, more missiles end up in Israeli backyards, and Israel has less territory from where it can adequately defend itself. Then our officials are shocked that somehow it didn't work out this time and worse yet, they sometimes scapegoat Israel for the last peace process's failure.
So pardon my lack of optimism about this latest joke of a peace conference in Annapolis, MD. Look, I may not have a lot of fancy pants PhDs and the closest I've come to Foggy Bottom is taking the Metro when I used to live in the D.C. area. But the whole thing can be summarizes as thus: the Palis don't just want their own country. If that's all they wanted, this would've been solved a long time ago. They want one thing and one thing only: the end of Israel. You see, the Arabs/Muslims just don't want Jewish folks in their 'hood. The fact that the postage stamp sized nation of 6 million or so has managed to hold off its enemies and thrive without a drop of oil to its name while most of its neighbors are living in crapitude just drives the Arabs even more crazy. But they are also very patient. As long as there is hope they can succeed at driving all of the Jews out of Israel, even if it takes 500 or a thousand years, they'll keep up with the merry-go-round of terrorism, caterwauling, demanding, and pretending to be reasonable on occasion. Absolutely nothing is going to change.
There are only two ways this war on Israel will end: a) Israel ceases to exist as a Jewish state or b) the Arabs/Muslims give up and accept Israel's existence. I hope the former never happens, while I'm not optimistic the latter will happen any time soon. So, just leave Israel be and let it do what it must to survive.