There's no hope for peace
Two days ago, I showed you a video in which 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Peter Wehner sums up what that video taught those of us who were willing to watch it and accept it at face value (which likely includes no one in Obama's Washington).
We’re repeatedly told that the issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are enormously complicated, solvable only by diplomats of unusual skill and ability, and that Israel, always Israel, must take a “chance for peace.” But in its most important respects this conflict, at its core, is quite simple: the Palestinians have yet to make their own inner peace with the existence of a Jewish state. Every failed effort at peace, beginning before Oslo and to this very day, can be traced back to this fundamental truth. Because it is an unpleasant one, many people in the West have simply refused to accept it. It is too unsettling to their premises and presuppositions. And so they proceed in self-deception, demanding that Israel make concessions with a “peace partner” that is, in fact, an implacable and lethal enemy.It's time to dispel our illusions. There is no peace on the way. Not now, and probably not ever.
Tactically “we may win or lose,” Faisal Husseini, a supposedly moderate figure in Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, said a decade ago. “But our yes will continue to aspire to the strategic goal, namely, to Palestine from the [Jordan] rive to the [Mediterranean] sea.”
“Whatever we get now,” he added, “cannot make us forget this supreme truth.”
That remains, now as ever, the “supreme truth” guiding the Palestinian leadership. As long as it does–as long as the malignant and murderous pathologies that afflict the Palestinian and Arab world remain–it is folly to pretend real peace is possible. Illusions, even soothing illusions, are never a substitute for reality.
Labels: Abu Mazen, Israel is a Jewish state, two-state solution
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:55 PM
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