Posted on 11/13/2016 5:38:33 AM PST by Kaslin
If there is one thing that President-elect Trump may do right, it is apply some Realpolitik to the Mideast. It may be the only possible way to deal with the matter.
For far too long, the world has tried to solve the Mideast morass from a position of morality. However, when the competing sides have completely opposing moralities, there can be no common ground. Out of the frustration arise completely wild-eyed proposals that have absolutely no hope of working.
The Arabists are now proposing a one-state solution, where both Jews and Arabs would be equally enfranchised inside a secular state. Even were one to assume that such a proposal is morally defensible, does anyone seriously believe that Israel's Jews will ever allow themselves to become hostage to a Muslim Arab demographic that could possibly outnumber the Jews at some point.
The most famous proponent -- not the only one -- of this one state solution is Ali Abunimah at the Electronic Intifada, who wrote One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. The proposal is neither bold, nor new. The Arabs put forth the same proposal during the 1947 United Nations debate on the partition of the Palestine Mandate. The Jews were adamantly against it. They wanted their own Jewish majority state. What the Jewish community rejected in 1947, they will reject now; and pretty much for the same reasons. Muslim constituencies and polities are insane.
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“And the president could maintain the fiction of neutrality.”
Why should he?
I hope he stays out of it and stops giving any money to Abbas. The PA/PLO left the peace process to hook up with Ham@s and that said it all. Ham@s then attacked Israel.
We know who the bad guys are and we just need to mind our business and leave taking care of the bad guys to the Israelis.
My own sense of “realpolitik” is that Islam is fighting the rest of the world. I’m not sure how much we need to engage them directly ( I oppose “boots on the ground”) but I certainly wouldn’t GIVE them an inch. We can’t be neutral here. Islam cannot make gains.
Isn’t Realpolitik part of the GOPe deck of cards?
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