Don't do it

Jerusalem Post ^ | Dec. 3, 2003 | URI DAN

[yonif]

Why doesn't US Secretary of State Colin Powell appreciate that by receiving Yossi Beilin and the Geneva Accord gang in Washington, possibly on Friday, he is undermining both Israel's democracy and the road map the Bush administration has pushed so hard?

Earlier this week, our embassy in London sent a message to Jerusalem stating that Nick Archer, head of the Middle East desk in the British Foreign Office, would be the official representative of his government at the ceremony.

Archer would accompany Lord Michael Levy, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Middle East envoy. Their trip received the blessing of Blair, who expressed support for the understandings reached between Beilin and the Palestinians.

The embassy quoted the London press as saying that Lord Levy had persuaded Blair to support the Geneva Accord, which had been worded by Levy's son Daniel Levy, who is Beilin's assistant.

This diplomatic report provides additional evidence of how Jews, both inside and outside Israel, are weakening the Jewish state at a time when it is waging a difficult war.

Lord Levy is a good friend of Blair's and has given him considerable aid in his political career. Both of them may well have acted in good faith. Ironically, Blair, who demanded Israel accept the road map, is aware how ready Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to make concessions, especially if the PA were to fulfill the initial condition of the road map: dismantling the terror infrastructure and ceasing its attacks.

Like Powell, Blair should have taken care to avoid harming the road map. Blair should not have sent Archer to Geneva. How would Blair feel if Switzerland were to sponsor an independent peace conference for Ireland while he was trying to find a solution to the bloody conflict there?

British and American intelligence services know that the Geneva farce has been organized by Yasser Arafat, the hero of Beilin, Lord Levy, and other Jews of the Left. And Arafat's aim remains the destruction of the Jewish state by a combination of terrorist and diplomatic tactics.

ARAFAT'S INTENTION from the very first has been to convince peace-hungry Israelis that if they only make a few more concessions he will sign a peace agreement with them.

He has tried to deceive Israeli public opinion into thinking that the sole obstacle to peace has been the policies of Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon.

Still, Arafat's deception plan is being abetted by Beilin, who really believes he is Israel's peace messiah. Beilin's hatred for Sharon is only matched by his ambition to become prime minister. To achieve this goal he is willing to give Arafat the Temple Mount and "return" thousands of Palestinian "refugees" to Israel.

Arafat, for his part, is employing Beilin to undermine our democratic regime using Swiss financial backing.

Would Neville Chamberlain have tried to negotiate with Hitler – after his appeasement policy had already caused the outbreak of the Second World War? In super-democratic Israel this can happen. The Oslo Agreement initiated by Beilin, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin, has led to the most terrible and longest war Israel has ever known.

Now Beilin thinks that Israel is weak enough to make fresh concessions to Arafat, including uprooting settlements and awarding Arafat territory in the Negev as "compensation." If Beilin really wanted to preserve a Jewish state, he should have offered Arafat as "compensation" Umm el-Fahm, whose residents regard themselves as Palestinians. He didn't because he and his colleagues know that their sole chance of returning to power is dependent on the Arab vote.

That's why it is strange that Powell is willing to meet with Beilin & Co. After all, Powell, like Blair, has declared his support for the road map. More importantly, the US is ready to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of its soldiers in order to bring democracy to the Middle East.

Doesn't Powell understand that by receiving Beilin he is undermining the sole democracy in the Middle East, Israel?

The writer is the Mideast correspondent of The New York Post.

[yonif]

Ping.

[observer5]

Well somebody's got to do something at one point.

If we leave it uo to Sharon and tha Palis, they gonne be at it fo ranother 100 years!