Posted on 10/12/2007 11:16:04 AM PDT by JZelle
Name one concession Israel has made in recent years that has been reciprocated by its sworn enemies. This is not a trick question. There are none.
That's why next month's announced "Middle East Summit" in Annapolis should be viewed as one more installment payment in selling out Israel and U.S. interests in the Middle East. While the United States continues to struggle to shore up democracy in Iraq, the Bush administration — like others before it — proceeds to undermine the likelihood that the region's first democracy will endure.
At every negotiating session, Israel is pressured into making concessions for "peace" and receives more war in response. Mostly this is because of the wishful thinking in the West that has replaced sound policy. Why should the Palestinians make concessions when they are drawing closer to their objective of eradicating Israel by throwing stones and bombs and stonewalling negotiations?
In an address to the Israeli Knesset, President Shimon Peres reaffirmed the flaw in Western thinking: "Even if there are some who express doubt at the ability of the Palestinians to achieve peace, the impression must not be created that Israel has doubts regarding the need and the willingness to achieve full peace." So it's not about hard bargaining resulting in preserving Israel with defensible borders and cessation of terrorist attacks; it's about "impressions"? No wonder Israel's enemies are emboldened as never before.
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“Name one concession Israel has made in recent years that has been reciprocated by its sworn enemies. This is not a trick question. There are none.”
I guess “not blowing up a bus in over a year” doesn’t really count as a concession by the Palestinians.
Especially since they've been busy fighting their own lately (Fatah vs. Hamas).
It’s hard these days to read the news, and not think about the Rapture, as a Christian. Lord Jesus said that He would be back as a “Thief in the night,” meaning that the world at large would be surprised. What would He be ‘stealing?’- that would be the Church.
This meeting in Maryland next month- who knows what’s going to be hammered out in secret? The Antichrist, according to the Bible is identified when he signs a peace deal with Israel for 7 years, that allows them to rebuild their Temple. Who knows what will “trigger” the Rapture? maybe one of these deals, that we won’t even be aware of at the time. My point being, we could get out of here at any minute, the way things are going. I honestly don’t expect things to go on for much longer like this.
Ping to Cal Thomas article
Infidel Israelis, Americans and Europeans will not dissuade those sworn to destroy Israel. President Bush had promised former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon he could expect U.S. support to maintain defensible borders. In the plan now being discussed, Israel’s borders would be indefensible.”
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Bush lied....Israelis died.
This policy not only emboldens Israel’s enemies, it emboldens Islamofascists everywhere.
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