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Mr. President, Which ‘Palestinians’ Should Israel Make Peace with?

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[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]Has it occurred to anyone in authority to lift the blinds and even briefly peek in on the Palestinians?

Shouldn’t we be slightly curious about what they have been doing the past six weeks, the last 62 years, while 125 countries from the sainted “international community” have been clubbing Israel for building in East Jerusalem.

One month from yesterday, Israel will turn 62 years old, which, coincidentally, is how long, in the modern era, various of the hostile Arab tribes that encircle the Jewish state have been waging war against them.

Not one day of peace has occurred since May 14, 1948, because the Arab agenda is to destroy every Jew therein and swallow up the entire land for themselves.

For 62 years, the rest of the civilized world, including the United States, has listened to that claim, smiled with irony and said, “Feh. We know you are kidding, aren’t you?”

These are the same officials give an identical response to the Smiling Dwarf of Iran who says every week that he is going to annihilate Israel. President Obama’s measured, erudite response is to duck into a gym and shoot baskets.

Where Are Israel’s Partners?

By my reading of all dimensions of the media, only the Jews are taking the Smiling Dwarf soberly, ostensibly preparing to attack him before he deigns to strike them.

President Obama, meanwhile, tucks the basketball under his right arm, narrows his gaze and chillingly warns Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, “Don’t you dare attack Iran. There will be consequences.”

But Mr. Obama’s posture toward those gosh darned cutie pie Palestinians is…?

I dunno.

Here is where the mystery detours into exasperation. While he publicly scolds Israel on a regular basis for daring to put up new apartment buildings in its capital — Land o’ Goshen, what will them there Jews think of next? — I don’t believe he has spoken one word about the peace process to the “Palestinians” for nearly a year.

By the way, Mr. President, who are “the Palestinians”?

Finding a “Palestinian” is not the same as flying into St. Louis and finding a whole mess of Missourians.

What a Choice, Pal

When you say that Israel must, absolutely must, surrender part of Israel, must make other sacrifices, must be prepared to lose a few lives while making “peace” with the “Palestinians,” can you tell me who you mean?

Is it the fanciful historical genius Mahmoud Abbas, the fang-less idiot who still denies the Holocaust happened? The fangless idiot who arguably presides — I was going to say “controls,” but that would be excessive — over part of the West Bank. That is all. If the fangless idiot strode into the Gaza Strip tonight, his corrupt body would be blown into a number of lifeless pieces as soon as the first Hamas terrorist espied him.

Mr. President, when you say “the Palestinians,” could you mean Hamas, the terrorizing gangsters who have had 1.5 million Gazans by the throat for a few years, and wouldn’t be caught dead or alive talking to or living with Abbas?

If you are insisting that Israel make peace or you will spit in their eye again and tell them it is raining, the Netanyahu government at least should have the name of one peace partner.

Choose your terrorist weapon, pal — Are the Israelis supposed to draw up a love contract with the Abbas/West Bank gang or the Hamas hoodlums in Gaza?

So far, neither is budging. People say that you are doing the negotiating for the warmongering Arabs, that they only have to push their fists deeper into their pockets and keep smiling hollowly as if they all were named Forrest Gump.

Whose turn is it to the play chief idiot tonight?

Before you go to bed, email me the identity of the designated thugs Israel is to lie down with.

Let’s just pretend that it is Abbas whom Israel makes peace with tomorrow, just before Shabbos. And let’s say the terms include “Palestinian” governance over the West Bank (all of it?) and the enclave in East Jerusalem where thousands of them live.

Do you think Israelis, forever after then, can sleep serenely in their beds at night?

Do you think that the idiot Abbas will morph from a lion into a lamb and coo to you, Mr. President, “By golly, Barack Baby, this is all we ever have wanted out of life, a little slice of the land of our ancestors and to be able to live adjacent to millions of peace-loving Jews”?

If you do, you are loonier than your worst critic charges.

Arabs have made it clear every day for 62 years that the whole Land of Israel is their uncompromisable agenda.

Picking from the 21 enemy states that surround the Land of Israel, whichever tyrannical Arab government is hot at the moment — Lebanon, the PLO, Egypt, Syria, Jordan — has listened and rejected without regret every concession, every surrender of land, every peace offer for 62 years in a row.

Fifteen months into your remarkably naïve administration, Mr. President, you are prolonging Israel’s losing streak. For shame.