As Israel has just celebrated it’s 65th birthday,
the Obama administration and the Arab League have concocted a new
“groundbreaking peace initiative” that theoretically throws the “peace ball”
back into Israel’s hands. The Israelis have always wanted a “durable peace” with
her neighbors, but this effort is doomed to fail on so many levels that any
reasonable person familiar with the conflict would have to declare it just
another Arab League “dead on arrival” diplomatic PR scheme.
Let’s start with all the failed Arab peace initiatives that
cost Israeli lives:
1)
The Oslo Accords (Via Bill Clinton) served to
bring the PLO and Yasser Arafat into the West Bank where he systemically
organized the killing of hundreds of Israelis and terrorized the country with
suicides bombings. The only reason it has virtually stopped is because of a
defensive wall – heavily protested b y the Palestinians - erected to prevent
infiltrators. Arafat, by the way, got a Nobel Peace Prize for initiating this
swindle.
2)
The U.N. negotiated Israeli pullout from Lebanon
to get Israel to abandon a buffer zone utilized to protect her population from Hezbollah
rockets. It was supposed to end the arming of Hezbollah and put the Lebanese
army in control of the border. Instead, Hezbollah became part of the
government, they have taken complete control over the border – under the nose
of the U.N. troops – and have completely re-armed with over 70,000 rockets.
3)
The Gaza pullout was a strategic effort on the
part of PM Sharon to demonstrate to the world that Israel wanted peace and to
prove that the conflict wasn’t about land for peace. Since then there has been
nothing but one bomb after another from the terrorist Hamas regime.
On top of all these failed “papered over” diplomatic peace
initiatives, one has to question the 2 small elephants in the room:
1) The Palestinian as a diplomatic entity are fragmented and
unable to even agree on a unified government much less a peace agreement. The
West Bank under the PA, the Gaza Strip under Hamas, and the diaspora of
Palestinians living in Lebanon, Jordan and elsewhere have never seen common
ground
2) The Arab league as
a diplomatic entity is has zero credibility. It has a history of grand pomp and
circumstance for the purpose of promoting itself as a credible entity, but
exactly what have they done? If they can’t stop the genocide among their Muslim
brothers in Syria, or get Hezbollah or Hamas to comply with agreements, why
should the Israelis – or even Obama give them credibility?
Israel has not just survived 65 years – it has thrived and
has one of the most dynamic economies in the world. Israel has built, in a
short 65 years, a modern, democratic country with one hand building the country
and the other hand defending it. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have
institutionalized – with the help of the U.N. – their identity as victims.
Stripping away the competing Israeli and Palestinian narratives
about who did what to whom, the largest elephant in the room is somehow not the
most obvious: The U.S.A. is not going to give America back to the Indians, the Australians
are not going to give their country back to the Aborigines, and Israel – after
all the blood, sweat and tears of building their country and realizing their
destiny, are never going to surrender land they see vital to their security as
a nation. The Palestinians are going to have to internalize this fact. This
conflict was never over how much land the Israelis would concede in the West
Bank, after all – Jordan controlled the entire West Bank and Jerusalem from
1948 thru 1967 and the entire time they fought Israel over it’s right to exist
and their was never an effort to develop a Palestinian state. This conflict is
over the acceptance of Israel as a Jewish state by the entire Arab nation. The
current decaying state of the Arab world today - the failed “Arab Spring”, a belligerent
terrorist Iranian regime, the disintegration of both Syria, Lebanon, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Egypt, etc., the Israelis can’t be expected –nor should they –
sign any agreements with any Arab entity until conditions stabilize.
Unfortunately, that is not even on the horizon.
