The May 1, 2013 Arab League "Peace Proposal" should have been annouced on April Fools Day

As Israel has just celebrated it’s 65^th 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.