March 16, 2010

Israel is right

Israel is right about settlements and the Obama White House is in a snit over an apparent diplomatic slight. Get over it guys! Israel has far greater concerns than Joe biden or Hilary Clinton, especially since the current administration has displayed animus towards Israel almost since day one.

A defiant Mr Netanyahu appeared to be digging in despite clear indications that the Obama administration is now demanding the scrapping of plans for 1,600 new Jewish homes, whose announcement overshadowed last week's visit to Israel by the US Vice-President Joe Biden. Mr Netanyahu's stance appeared to guarantee, after a highly charged week, the protraction of a stand-off in which a full-scale diplomatic row blew up at the start of Mr Biden's visit and appeared to abate at the end of it. But it was then reignited by demands from Hillary Clinton and an angry White House that Israel make amends for the "insulting" announcement just as indirect negotiations with the Palestinians had finally been arranged.
Hillary Clinton can be offended all she likes.  If I were Israel I would be disinclined to care. Israel is fighting for its very existence. The Obama administration is not (at least not for another 2 years anyway). Israel is arguably, at a minimum, establishing a starting position from which to negotiate - much the same way Hamas is negotiating from a starting position of 'Israel should not exist'. Far fetched? Read their charter. From the Mideast Web;
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "

"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."

"After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying."
(emphasis added)

That's pretty definitive; Israel will be wiped out by Muslim jihad. At that point settlements aren't even part of the main argument. Hamas wants no land for Israel. The last paragraph above is an interpretation of Israeli defensive action, just like the Soviets used to argue that NATO's forward defense in Germany meant we wanted to invade the Soviet Union. There were never enough forces in NATO countries to invade Eastern Europe and Russia, but their presence was a great pretext for further Soviet aggression and expansion. Israel meanwhile is just looking for breathing room. Beset on all sides by hostile nations, settlements are but a mere blip on the regional radar.

The Independent continues;
The Israeli Prime Minister insisted yesterday that construction would continue "in the same way as has been customary over the last 42 years". He added: "The building of those Jewish neighbourhoods in no way hurt the Arabs of East Jerusalem and did not come at their expense."

But a prominent Fatah figure and former Palestinian foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, told The Independent that the prospect of talks resuming had been sabotaged by Israel's action. Speaking in Qatar yesterday ahead of reconciliation talks with Hamas, which governs Gaza, he added: "The speed at which Jerusalem is being Judaised and de-Arabised has surpassed any period in the history of the peace process and is so alarming that we cannot possibly continue giving cover to Mr Netanyahu that we are still negotiating while he is doing this."
De-Arabised?!? Talk about hypocrisy that puts the Obama White House to shame.



Muslims have done a pretty effective job, through the effective application of violence and intimidation, of driving Christians out of Bethlehem, and it doesn't intend to end there, not by a long shot.

4 comments:

  1. I totally agree. The whole idea that Obama thinks we have the right to tell Israel they can't build settlements on their own land, and get bent out of shape because they announce a plan to build on land we want the to give to people who only want Israel's extermination is totally absurd. Obama's policy is to embrace our enemies and alienate our allies.

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  2. WE ISRAELI HAS MANY ANEMIAS FIRST ALL OUR LEADER . THAT HELP THE ENEMIES . LIKE A PEACE PLAN . I TELL YOU WHAT IN MY

    PEACE PLAN . STRONGER AND MORE EFFICIENT ARMY THIS IS THE BRING PEACE. . ABBAS COMPLAIN THAT ISRAEL CRACK ON STONE

    THROWING . HEY PALL DID YOU HEAR ABOUT LAW ??. BUT HE CONTINUE AND THREAT ISRAEL WITH WAR . LIKE IT WASENT WAR ALREADY

    THERE 65 YEARS AND COUNTING .
    JUST STRONGER AND STRONGER ISRAELI ARMY WILL BRING PEACE . WE DONT WENT HILLARY CLINTON PEACE . ACTUALLY ALL THIS PROBLEM

    SUPPORTED BEHIND BY UNITED STATE . AND HILLARY UNITED STATE HAS PEACE PLAN . TWO STATE THAT WILL BE THE END OF ISRAEL .

    WE ARE WITH PEACE WITH THIS ARAB . DONT KILL THEM RESPECT THE PROPERTY. THEY COMING WITH UNITED STATE AND THE EUROPEAN WITH

    THE PEACE PLAN . DESTROY ISRAEL AND ISRAEL WEAK . AND THE STUPID ISRAELI TALKING "PEACE".
    ONLY SOLUTION IF THE ARAB WILL BE WITH PEACE WE DONT NEED TALK . WE HAVE ENOUGH" BULLSIT "TALK HILLARY . WE HAVE TO STOP

    TALKING AND JUST LIVE IN PEACE . BUT THE ARAB AND HILLARY WENT PEACE . WITH STONE THROWING THUG . SUPPORTED BY OUTSIDE

    PEOPLE. . YES THIS THE TRUE STOP TALKING PEACE AND THROW STONE. YOUR APPROACH 10.000 MILE AWAY BRING MORE WAR IN .WHAT ABOUT

    SETTLEMENT ? IF THE WOULDNT FIGHT ABOUT SETTLEMENT THE WOULD FIGHT ABOUT OTHER THING . ONLY MORE SETTLEMENT BRING PEACE .

    HEY THIS ISNT" USA BUSINESS . IF SETTLE THEIR . YOU DONT HAVE RIGHT TO INTERFERE AND SUPPORT STONE THROWING THUG . AS I

    SAID BEFORE THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS TO STOP TALK NOT WITH AMERICAN NOT WITH PALESTINIAN. OR ANYBODY LESE AND DO WHAT IS

    RIGHT . IF ARAB WENT TO KILL . WE WILL KILL THEM TO .
    BUT THAN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNIST SOCIALIST VERY UPSET . when i say hillary is like hitler ni mean at she is
    HILLARY .
    BY THE WAY WHO GIVE THE MANDATE OR UNITED NATION USA OR THE EUROPEAN . TO INTERFERE IN OTHER COUNTRY .
    ALL THIS PEACE CRAP AND MR MITCHELL HE KNOW MORE TALK . IS LIKETHE MAFIA COME THREATING YOU HEY PALL WE OFFER YOU PEACE .
    IF WE TALK WITH YOU PEACE . THAN THE COME BURN YOU BACK YARD HEY LIKE THIS IS HOW HILLARY CLINTON AND MR JIMMY CARTER AND

    OUR LEADER MENACHEM BEGIN . PALL DID YOU SEE THAN THE WENT TO BURN HOUSE .
    THAT THE COME WITH . YOU ARE ISRAELI "APARTHIDE" . THIS HILLARY OR MAYBE OTHER OFFICIAL LIKE THW MAFIA SUPPORT AND HELP MR

    ABBAS . BEHIND OTHER ORGANIZATION
    UNITED NATION .MURDER TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ALSO OTHER MAFIA MEMBER COME TO ISRAEL . MR BAN COMING TELLING US WHERE WE

    CANNOT LIVE .
    ITS CLEAR THAT UNITED TACTIC LIKE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION .
    SIMPLE THE OWN SO MUCH TO WORLD AND ARAB . BECAUSE THE BIG WASTE . IN GOVERNMENT AND HOW GOVERNMENT OPERATE
    I AM SMALL GUY MY NAME IS MEIR . I CALL ON YOU ARAB AND PALESTINIAN . TO RESPECT THE LAW . AND RESPECT ISRAELI . AS WE

    ISRAELI GIVE YOU JOB. AND RESPECT YOUR PROPERTY
    AND RESPECT THE LAW .

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  3. No one can make peace with these people it seems like these third world countries have been at war since the beginning of times and they will always be.

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