[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]With Rosh Hashanah starting tomorrow night, continuing through Thursday and into Friday when the Shabbat begins, the air in our home for the next four evenings will be thick with debate over the latest ritualistic, and pragmatically useless, round of Middle East “peace” talks.
Palestinians, out of amazingly skinny air, say they demand three pieces of land for their proposed state, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
I ask: Why is Prime Minister Netanyahu sitting only with Mahmoud Abbas, the putative leader of the West Bank. The Hamas terrorists who run the Gaza Strip say they are not sitting with Israel because it is not a legitimate country.
Therefore I ask: Why should Israel even sneeze in the direction of the Palestinian Authority when the lunatic leader, Abbas, a Holocaust denier by the way, only controls one-third of the land the war-crazed Arabs are demanding?
First, Abbas will not make peace. If peace is forced upon him, what has Israel achieved? “Peace,” creatively speaking, with the 50 percent of the Palestinian world that isn’t attacking them anyway.
Since Hamas refuses to recognize Israel a scant 62 years later, much less joining the Jewish state at the Peace Talks Table, a peace process victory — which is supposed to lead to a “Palestinian” “state” — would be half of a horse, a fish with no head, a dog with no legs.
The West Bank is not attacking Israel these days. Only Gaza is. So what kind of Rube Goldberg contraption are you holding in your sweaty palms when you have made “peace” with the half of the Arab war machine that is not in a mood to make war this season? With Hamas declining to participate, creating a Palestinian state under these circumstances would be like making it rain up and down Culver Boulevard while the sun sparkles above every other Culver City street.
Meeting Makes No Sense
Why bother until the entire Palestinian leadership co-operates? Tell me, please.
There is a better chance of the Messiah flying in on the noon balloon from Saskatoon than these talks have of putting smiles on the faces of Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas.
Despite the shameful cover of Time magazine, declaring “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace,” the problem is and ever was Palestinian intransigence.
The lunatic in the West Bank says he will walk if Israel resumes building homes for fellow Jews in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians, without logic or historic rationale, claim will be the capital of their state that, please G-d, never should come about. At every set of peace talks in history — except in 1977 when Israel’s first conservative P.M., Menachem Begin, struck peace for the first time since statehood, with Egypt. (The peace accords sign by the left-wing P.M. Yitzhak Rabin 17 years ago with the mass murderer Arafat was a slightly taller joke than global warming.
Most of the conscious world, which believes the Jews are the main or even single obstacle to enduring peace, has been harrumphing about Jewish stubbornness since talks commenced last week.
Most pundits and politicians I have seen say the talks will founder on the shoals of two causes, Israeli settlements and the hardline philosophy of Mr. Netanyahu. The Palestinians are consistently portrayed as political quadriplegics, oligarchic orphans.
Hardliners, you see, only emerge from the right. On the left, we have Boy Scout leaders, grinning, loving fathers who seek only tranquility. Neither you, nor I, dear reader has ever heard of a hardline left-wing leader, not dictators like Chavez, Castro or Ahmadinejad, nor any of the butchers who have their hands around the throats their Arab subjects in 22 lands encircling Israel.
But since the left has a megaphone monopoly, truth and honesty have to be kidnapped to be heard by the outside world.