Obama's borders Caused 60 Years of War

The American Thinker ^ | May 20, 2011 | James Lewis

[Scanian]

Obama has just given an eager world his fantasy answer for the last sixty years of Arab-Israel conflict. The Great One's long-awaited solution is for Israel to pull back to the cease-fire lines of the 1948 War of Independence, or what Obama, in a moment of historical amnesia, calls "the 1967 borders." People have fought and died over those borders since 1949, not 1967. Make that sixty years of regular warfare.

Take a quick glance at the Green Line on the map, and see if you can honestly answer this question:

"Would I want my family and children to live on the scary side of that lengthy, convoluted and meandering border, with Hamas and Hezbollah trying to breach the fence every night with knife-wielding maniacs and Grad rocket launchers?"

If you answered that question honestly, you cannot be a liberal. You know too much.

However, if you think the answer is "Yes, I'll do anything for peace, including putting my kids' lives on the line," then you are sucker bait for the most delusional political party in American history. And that includes the Bull Moose Party.

Robert Frost wrote that "Good fences make good neighbors." It's also true that "bad fences make bad neighbors." The Green Line is militarily dreadful, as the map shows. Obama's proposal is therefore strategically destructive.

What's worse, by raising impossible expectations in the Islamic world, expectations that are bound to be disappointed, Obama will end up making things much worse rather than much better. We'll be very lucky if a major Middle East war doesn't break out in the next few years, among emerging nuclear powers.

[Tzfat]

Israel became number 1 in 2008. Israel’s Jewish population is growing, whereas in the US it is shrinking.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Thanks.

[dennisw]

How about the Golan Heights? Do the Syrians get that as a freebie? When Obama says Israel must return to 1967 borders the Arab Muslims interpret this as — “Obama means we get all the West Bank, most of Jerusalem and we get the Golan Heights. Our Muslim brother Obama has finally come through for us”

Can you blame the Muslims for thinking this? Obama likes it too because it leaves Israel defenseless.

[neverdem]

This is Inspector Clouseau in a glassware factory, knocking down crystal chandeliers and champagne glasses wherever he goes, and never noticing that anything is wrong.

Be line, IMHO. Maybe useful as a campaign ad.