The normal Palestinian tactic before any `peace ' conference is to ramp up terrorist attacks on Israel.
Today,the Israelis killed a Fatah homicide bomber, Mustapha Mohammed Abu Srur, 21, of Fatah's al Aqsa Brigades, who receive their paychecks directly from 'moderate'
According to Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin, this is the eighth attempt at a Palestinian terrorist attack originating from Judea and Samaria in the last thirty days.
Along with the continued rocket and mortar attacks, this signifies the Palestinians' actual strategy prior to the Annapolis, Maryland `peace' conference planned next month by the Bush Administration.
The idea is for the Palestinians to achieve one or more high casualty attacks inside Israel before the conference to energize their own people (who glory in these massacres of Israeli civilians),attempt to intimidate the Israelis, and show that `the armed struggle' continues peace talks or no peace talks...especially if the Palestinians don't get things all their own way at the bargaining table. It also allows Abbas to represent himself as a `stream valve', a `moderate' who can control the violence if he gets everything he asks for as a sacrifice `for peace'.
This is a well worn song from Yasir Arafat's repertoire, and Arafat's old partner in crime Abbas is singing the same old tune...
More evidence of that was Abbas' hardening of his position prior to the conference. He now wants all of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), Gaza, and all of East Jerusalem including the Temple Mount and the right to swamp what's left of Israel with genocidal Palestinian `refugees' - or nothing at all, and `the armed struggle' will continue. He also made the gesture of releasing 25 Hamas prisoners as the negotiations for the sulwa (reconciliation) with Hamas continue, midwifed by the Saudis and the Arab League.
As a point of interest, some of you might not be aware that what
Abbas, of course, is the equivalent of a casino gambler who tried to take the whole pot, lost,and is now demanding not only his losses back from the house but `compensation' in the form of chips he never won in the first place!
What's more, Abbas himself has hardly any power on the ground. Many Palestinians jokingly refer to him as `the mayor of Ramallah' since he has no power or control anywhere else, stays under heavy guard in Ramallah and pretty much only leaves Ramallah to go abroad.
Israeli PM Olmert likewise has hardly any support among Israelis aside from a coalition of about 70 Knesset members in his coalition who are blocking the country from going to elections because they know they'd be thrown out of office themselves. I've actually seen polls in places like Yediot and Ma'ariv that show him with a positive approval rating of 3% and an error margin of plus or minus 3%, which would lead me to believe that he has very little support outside of his immediate family.
So, we have here what would be a farcical situation if the end results weren't likely to be so bloody.
In Olmert, we have a politician who would love nothing better than to give away as much of Israel as he can get away with - he's under criminal indictment, heartily disliked by most of his countrymen and is a better than even bet to flee Israel to escape jail time. Nothing he gives Abbas short of what amounts to national suicide would be acceptable to the Palestinians, and giving Abbas everything Abbas wants would never be accepted by the Israelis without a national referendum and likely new elections which would repudiate the deal.
In Abbas, we have a `leader' without the power to implement any peace promises he might give to Israel in exchange for any additional real estate and concessions he's offered...not to mention the fact that Abbas has no flexibility to moderate his demands and doesn't speak for all the Palestinians...or even most of them
If the Bush Administration and Condi Rice were really serious about ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, a first step might be to go back to Oslo and Phase 1 and Phase 2 the Road map and insist that the Palestinians honor those agreements and fulfill the original commitments they made before moving on to any kind of final status discussions.
But of course, the Saudis wouldn't like that, which is the name of the game for Bush and Condi Rice anyway.
The proposed Annapolis Conference, like almost all of the ones before it is based on a ridiculous premise..that the Arabs have any interest in actually living next to Israel and accepting its existence. At every `negotiation' of this sort Israel is pressured into making `sacrifices for peace' that endanger it strategically and simply encourage its genocidal foes to continue the process of eradicating it as a nation altogether.
For all of the rhetoric by the Bush Administration about encouraging democracy in the Middle East, US policy continues to undermine America's main ally in the Middle East and possibility of the only real democracy in the region surviving.
Isn't homicide bomber a really infantile expression. It seems as if people think that they can change reality if they change the words. I see homicide bomber and I laugh.
ReplyDeleteAt what point are people going to wake up and realize that the Jihadists are the new communists. AM i the only one old enough, I'm only 32, to remember how there were commies everywhere? Anyone remember ho Reagan talked about the Sandinistas invading Texas. C'mon didn't anyone read the papers?
The greatest thing is that Israel bought arms for the Us and we sent them to the Jihadists in Afghanistan. SO when people talk about the Palestinians never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity, one could say the Israels never miss an opportunity to arm their enemies.
Oh ya, get some balls and come to the DailyKos and argue with some of us.
Hello Justin,
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by.
I always prefer clarity to agreement, and you made yourself pretty clear. And at least were halfway polite, for a KOSsack.
Lessee, changing reality by changing words...how `bout `settler' for resident or `settlement' for `Jewish community' Or `West Bank' for `Judea and Samaria'? Or even better, how about `apartheid wall' for `security barrier? I have a feeling you probably approve of those changes.
`Homicide bomber' is a perfectly accurate term, but I wouldn't expect anyone who hasn't experienced the sights, smells and sounds of that kind of murderous attack to have the slightest understanding of what happens when jihadis deliberately target innocent civilians.If you and your friends at Daily Kos have your way, you very well may remedy that lapse in your experience.
As far as `commies' go, it's an indisputable historic fact that the Soviets infiltrated American society both with actual agents and with sympathizers and dupes. We know this due to the Vendana cables and due to our ability to peruse
the actual Soviet Archives until Putin recently curtailed access.
Some of the names include Alger Hiss, Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Harry Dexter White,the Rosenbergs and Walter Duranty, among many others.
The Soviet enclaves in Cuba and Nicaragua and Grenada all violated the Monroe Doctrine, but we can certainly agree to disagree as to whether this was a vital issue for US security or not.
For all that, the `commies' never succeeded in attacking the US on its home soil, whereas the jihadis did, several times. You might want to ponder that before you simply eliminate the Islamists as just this seasons' version of a phony threat to scare people.
I don't think I'll be going to Daily Kos any time soon, as I find the racism and outright falsehoods in many of the diaries and comments not worth the time, and your fellow KOSsacks seem to like their site as an echo chamber...which is fine by me, but boring.
But you're welcome here, as long as you contribute something worthwhile in the future and keep a repectful tongue in your head.
Regards,
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YOu forgot I.F. Stone, I believe Mr. Coulter talks about him is her book treason, man what a painful read.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of spies how bout that Johnny Pollard, great friend of America.
`Mr' Coulter?
ReplyDeleteI realize you see things pretty strangely, but I didn't think you were that far gone.
I read `Treason'. Don't recall IF Stone in it, but is there a single thing she or Mona Charen in `Useful Idiots' wrote about Soviet penetration in the US you can factually refute?
Didn't think so.
As for Pollard, I'm certainly not one of his defenders, but can you honestly compare any harm he may have done to the US with the people I named in my original reply to you?
Didn't think so.
It's amazing how some people can bring Jews and Israel into just about any topic.
How do you feel about her claiming that Jews need to be perfected? Maybe she is anti-semitic even though she isn't critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
ReplyDeleteAlso this justification for Israel's treatment of the Palestinians based on the actions of other states is nonsense. This same logic can be used by anyone who wants to use violence, against civilians, that doesn't reach the height of the bombs dropped on Japan by the US.