Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Mark Davis in the Dallas Morning News: Deluded by hope of peace
This is a laudable goal. But like throwing the car keys to a first-grader, it is hazardously premature.
I intend no metaphoric insult to Palestinians, as if they are not mature enough to self-govern. They are grown-ups who deserve to make their own leadership choices.
The sad thing is that their most recent choices, in what passes for elections in their war-torn territories, have been to embrace the blood-soaked rule of Hamas. Far too many Palestinians rejected Mr. Abbas' more moderate Fatah party to elect lawmakers whose policy goals include the violent eradication of Israel.
In a queasy irony, Mr. Olmert, the Israeli leader, nonetheless shares a gung-ho zeal for a headlong rush to a new Palestine.
At the State Department, deputy spokesman Tom Casey tried after the conference to destigmatize the Palestinian voters' hunger for terrorist leadership. "Those Hamas votes were based on a variety of things," he told me. "Hamas made various promises about economic reform and services to people that resonated among voters."
No kidding. But if a candidate comes to me and says he wants to cut taxes and government spending, but, by the way, he also wants to nuke Canada, that's going to be a deal-breaker...
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"a scenario that recreates a country called Palestine."
Unfortunate that the author doesn't know how that there never has been any such country...
There is only one solution now:
Egypt to regain over gaza
Jordan to regain control over the west bank and areas who used to be Jordan prior to Israel agreeing to take them over in the 1949 agreement.
Parts of west bank - such as some areas in Jerusalem, Gush Etzion and few others would remain in Israeli hands.
"But if a candidate comes to me and says he wants to cut taxes and government spending, but, by the way, he also wants to nuke Canada, that's going to be a deal-breaker..."
Yea, and it's difficult to laugh at that precisely because the analogy rings so true; the "Doh!" factor.
Unfortunately Fatah is not that much better. It is like choosing between two different Mafia families. 1)Fatah is corrupt to the nth. 2) Hamas's style is to tell everyone their goal is the destruction of Israel. Fatah will tell the West that they want to coexist w Israel, while when talking to Arabs, Fatah will say that it is only a matter of time before Israel is destroyed.