Mr. Bill: 'Russians And Settlers Are The Obstacles to MidEast Peace'

Not Hamas, not Hezbollah,not Iran and especially not Palestinian terrorism - no, what's keeping the Middle East from being kumbayah land is those suspicious Russian Jews and those crazy settlers.

At least according to ex-president Bill Clinton, that is.

In a roundtable with reporters during his Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, Mr. Bill decided to weigh in on the Middle East Peace process.

"An increasing number of the young people in the IDF are the children of Russians and settlers, the hardest-core people against a division of the land. This presents a staggering problem," Clinton said. "It's a different Israel. 16 percent of Israelis speak Russian."

Clinton called the Russian immigrants to Israel the group least interested in making a peace agreement with the Palestinians. "They've just got there, it's their country, they've made a commitment to the future there," Clinton said. "They can't imagine any historical or other claims that would justify dividing it."

Don't you just love it? The Israelis make a unilateral concession not to build in their own cities and towns for ten months,and the Palestinians finally get pressured into direct talks after nine-and-a-half months. When they finally show up, they constantly threaten to walk out and start 'negotiations' out by saying they're not going to make even one concession to Israel.meanwhile, the stream of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric spews unabated from the Palestinian Authority's mosques, schools and media.

And it's the Israelis who aren't interested in peace? Did Mr. Bill finally decide to inhale?

As for the Russians, guess what? The 'Russians' alone aren't the nearly two thirds of Israel's Jews who voted for parties on the Right. So it's not just Israelis from Russia ( most of whom have been their over a decade, by the way) or a bunch of 'settlers' who are suspicious of establishing a Palestinian state.

Actually, Mr. Bill bears no small responsibility for that change in Israeli public opinion. Thanks to him,(with an assist from Israel's Labor government) the Oslo Accords were rammed through, Yasir Arafat was empowered to create a terrorist infrastructure on Israel's borders and over 1,000 innocent Jews paid with their lives because of it.

After seeing the results of Oslo and the follow up lesson in Gaza, most Israelis understand that the no concessions Israel makes will ever be enough and that whole idea of swapping 'land for peace' with people who are committed to Israel's destruction is not just stupid - it's suicidal.

Mr. Bill ought to think about the blood that's already on his hands before he starts badgering the Jews of Israel to give a repeat performance.

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