Obama To Push Israel To Split Jerusalem, Retreat to Pre-'67 Borders

According to the London Times Online,Barack Obama already has a clear plan for Israel - the Saudi Peace plan:

Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to America’s president-elect.

Obama intends to throw his support behind a 2002 Saudi peace initiative endorsed by the Arab League and backed by Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister and leader of the ruling Kadima party.

The proposal gives Israel an effective veto on the return of Arab refugees expelled in 1948 while requiring it to restore the Golan Heights to Syria and allow the Palestinians to establish a state capital in east Jerusalem.

On a visit to the Middle East last July, the president-elect said privately it would be “crazy” for Israel to refuse a deal that could “give them peace with the Muslim world”, according to a senior Obama adviser.

It appears that Abbas was telling the truth.

And the usual suspects are behind it:

A bipartisan group of senior foreign policy advisers urged Obama to give the Arab plan top priority immediately after his election victory. They included Lee Hamilton, the former co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Democrat former national security adviser. Brzezinski will give an address tomorrow at Chatham House, the international relations think tank, in London.

Brent Scowcroft, a Republican former national security adviser, joined in the appeal. He said last week that the Middle East was the most troublesome area in the world and that an early start to the Palestinian peace process was “a way to psychologically change the mood of the region”. {...}

The advisers have told Obama he should lose no time in pursuing the policy in the first six to 12 months in office while he enjoys maximum goodwill.

All of Israel's old enemies apparently have the ear of the president-elect. And if Obama is willing to pressure Israel in this regard, it ought to tell you everything you want to know about him.

Both Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert are stupid enough to embrace something that trades highly strategic territory for mere `recognition' and brings Israel's genocidal enemies even closer to its population centers by retreating to what Israel's former UN ambassador Abba Eban aptly called 'the Auschwitz lines'. They may even attempt to do it before the elections in February.

Aside from that, the Saudi plan creates almost half a million Jewish refugees, takes the spiritual heart out of the country by making Israel's holy sites in Jerusalem,Judea and Samaria including the Western Wall Jew-free, and will negate the deterrent factor of the security fence and open Israel's cities up to homicide bombers again - and worse.

It will allow Syria to refortify the Golan and place missile bases there, overlooking the entire country.

And it will not guarantee 'peace'...far from it. Do you think Hamas, al-Aksa and Hezbollah are going to be bound by this? Instead, Israel's enemies will be even more emboldened to redouble their efforts to achieve what their goal has been all along -the destruction of Israel and the final ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Middle East.And when that happens, America will have lost one of its most valuable allies.



You only need to look at how well Israel's past retreats have worked out...in Lebanon and in Gaza, both of which have become heavily armed Iranian bases.And yet this time is supposed to work? Insanity and delusion, squared.

If things go down this way, I'd like to give a sarcastic shout out to the Israeli quislings like Olmert, Peres and Livni who've decide to destroy the Jewish State, and especially to the 70% + of American Jews who voted for Obama and look to be in for a very rude awakening. You won't realize how you've once again chosen the Golden Calf until it's too late.

As for the Israelis, they had better wake up quickly to the kind of monsters they have in charge of their country, and to the cold wind that looks to be emanating from the White House. They are being led like lambs to the slaughter.