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Ouch: Kedar tells 'Bibi' to find some backbone

Mordechai Kedar challenges Binyamin Netanyahu: Does 'Bibi' really have the guts to stand up to Obama? Or is he all bluff?

Kedar does so using the example of Egypt, where army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has forced US President Hussein Obama to blink and meekly accept the fact that Mohammed Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood are not coming back - to power or otherwise - for the foreseeable future. In fact, argues Kedar, Sisi could have Morsy executed (after a 'trial' of course), and there is nothing Obama can do about it. If Sisi can stand up to Obama, argues Kedar, so can 'Bibi' (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).

The events in Egypt prove that Obama and his team of aides are helpless against the determination of Middle Eastern countries. That’s how it is with Iran, with Iraq and with Syria. They can not enter into a confrontation with governments that are determined and firm in their positions, and ultimately Obama accepts the decisions of Middle East regimes, even if he does not agree with them.

What Netanyahu can and must conclude is that it is not at all necessary to come to an agreement with the Palestinians. Kerry can come again and again, can raise a thousand and one ideas, but cannot take away the Jewish people’s right to the Land of Israel, that was granted to it thousands of years ago, and again in 1920 in the San Remo Conference.

Obama and Kerry cannot assure Israel that a Palestinian state with territorial contiguity would not at some point become another Hamas state like that which arose six-and-a-half years ago in the Gaza Strip, and therefore Israel must relate to their demands exactly as Sisi relates to them.

Giving in does not lead to agreement, but rather to determination. Israel must do what Israeli interests – not American interests – dictate, and in this phase of history Israel’s immediate interest is to bring the Palestinian Authority to an end, and to continue what Hamas began: to establish the Palestinian Emirates on the ruins of the PA, based on the Arab cities in Judea and Samaria. Israel must maintain forever the rural expanse and offer Israeli citizenship to its residents.

A Palestinian terror state with territorial contiguity would be an existential threat to Israel, and therefore Israel should assert its right – it can and must say to Obama and Kerry: No! If Netanyahu is as determined as is Sisi, he will succeed against Obama and Kerry, exactly as Sisi has.

Read the whole thing. If only Netanyahu can find the backbone to take Kedar's advice....

Labels: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Binyamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Mohammed Morsy, Mordechai Kedar, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, two-state solution

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:45 PM