You can find lots of commentary on Obama's just completed Middle Eastern speech elsewhere, but you only need to hear that Obama is calling for Israel to return to its 1967 borders to know where this president stands on the Middle East. He wants Israel gone.
In 1967 Israel was attacked by its neighbors and Israel won, and in so doing picked up some territory including the Old City of Jerusalem. They're not giving that back. Not for Obama, not for peace, not for anybody. They won it in a fair fight, started by their enemies, and they're keeping it.
For some reason American presidents from both parties seem to think that they're smart enough to solve the Middle East problems. They're not. What we're dealing with in that region are centuries-old hatreds that aren't going to go away with negotiation and the problem is not Israel.
If the Palestinians were to lay down their arms today Israelis would gladly live peacefully beside them. They'd probably get their own sovereign country and there would be peace. If Israel were to lay down their arms. the Palestinians and allied nations like Syria and Iran would drive the Jews into the sea. Israel would no longer exist.
Tell me again why Israel needs to give up anything?
The smartest thing any American president could do for peace in the Middle East is tell Israel to do whatever they feel they need to do to protect themselves and cut off all support for the Palestinians. Until the radicals are disarmed there will be no peace.
By the way, this isn't the first time Obama has proposed shrinking Israel. He said the same thing right after his election in 2008.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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The new depth of depravity. Stand by for going lower.
This may get me in trouble with people who otherwise would ordinarily agree with me, but:
I’ll sign off on the Palestinian state (something that’s taken me a while to come around to) and I’ll sign off on the ’67 borders with some exceptions — not for large settlements of right-wing extremists, but if there are a few little bumps on the map here and there that would make Israel more militarily defensible. I would hope to see those as last-minute inclusions in the negotiating process.
Assuming there is going to be a negotiating process, of course.
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