The unilateral surrender of Israel continues

TownHall.com ^ | Friday, June 6, 2003 | Charles Krauthammer

[JohnHuang2]

WASHINGTON--President Bush held two Middle East summits this week. The first, with the Arab states, was an abject failure. The second, with the prime ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, was merely a troubling echo of another abject failure, the Oslo handshake of 1993.

Let's be plain about what happened at Sharm el-Sheik. The president of the United States put his prestige on the line for the sake of Arab-Israeli peace and the Arab states gave him nothing. They refused to endorse Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. They spoke of their opposition to ``terrorism,'' even as they repeatedly present their own publics with the most elaborate intellectual and religious justifications of why the killing of Jews in ``Palestine'' is ``resistance'' and not terrorism.

They did not take a single concrete action, not even a gesture, toward Israel. Egypt did not offer to return its ambassador to Israel. The Saudis threatened a boycott if Israel was even invited. And most important, the Arab states refused what Bush most desperately wanted: explicit endorsement of the American view that Yasser Arafat's time had come and passed.

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, June 6, 2003

Quote of the Day by scarab9

[Hugin]

Israel capitulated the day they agreed to negotiate with the PLO. All further discussions are simply laying out the terms of surrender.

[Elkiejg]

We can only hope that President Bush is giving the Arabs enough rope to hang themselves. If the terrorism doesn't stop - which I doubt it will - then he has just cause to go in and wipe out the Pallies - or at least unleash Israel. One can only hope.

[Elkiejg]

Another thought - when we ever learn that Arabs see compromise as weakness and act accordingly. They only seem to respect a show of strength - "compassionate conservatism" is not in their vocabulary.

[joesnuffy]

Now, forcing the unilateral surrender of Israel might be a policy, if it promised peace. But the
first round of unilateral concessions--from 1993 to 2000--yielded nothing but the
establishment of a terror base in Palestine, a ``Trojan horse'' as Faisal Husseini called it, from
which the bloodiest Palestinian violence ever has been launched.

[joesnuffy]

The UN will rush in and embrace Palestine as quickly as it is formed...
The skanks at the UN know what is at stake and THEY ALL HATE ISRAEL
France, Germany, Russia, China, N Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Egypt,Libya,Iran,Yemin,Sudan,Jordan,Syria,...
The security council will back any play Arafat and his thugs make...
If we dump the UN and back Israel...then I'd say this is a good move...
to finally face them all down...and wipe out all terrorists....
I dont think we have the stomach for it...

[Courier]

I don't know if you can call this a unilateral surrender when your trusted friend helps you along by plunging a knife into your back and throwing you down over a cliff into the waiting arms of savages. Savages who have given their word that if you are thrown into their arms may or may not tear you limb from limb.

Although, I am losing respect for the Israelis who are acting defeated and not putting up much resistance.

I just heard Powell on CNN. I haven't been so disgusted since I heard the identical, and I mean identical, words out of the Clinton Administration.

Why does the US continue to repeatedly head down the same Insanity Road in the Middle East?

[sheik yerbouty]

Judea and Samaria are not the Sudetenland. Time to go Finland on the jihadists. No road map; only the dirt nap for palisites.

[yonif]

If the terrorism doesn't stop - which I doubt it will - then he has just cause to go in and wipe out the Pallies - or at least unleash Israel. One can only hope.

We already have a cause. 1993-2003. The Oslo War where over 1000 Israelis lost their lives in terror, with hundreds wounded, orphaned, and maimed.

[veronica]

Brilliant commentary by Krauthammer, as always!

[yonif]

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