TO ALL AM ISRAEL
The misguided actions of the White House, the U.S. State Department and their interlocutors have raised Arab expectations of Israeli pliancy to a point of almost total delusion.
Fatah chieftain Mahmoud Abbas refuses to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahi without a prior Israeli commitment to a permanent freeze on all Jewish housing construction and other development activity in Judea, Samaria and the eastern sector of Jerusalem. Abbas now further insists that discussions with Israel must “resume” at the point at which he claims they were “recessed” with the Olmert government – i.e., with 98 percent of the “West Bank” and half of Jerusalem already in his pocket.
Salaam Fayad, Mr. Abass’ quixotic “prime minister,” has embarked on his own “impossible dream.” Fayad announced he will be devoting himself to forming a mythical “Palestinian State” in Israel, complete with all the trappings of sovereignty, including borders of his own choosing. He plans to present his paper-mache creation to the United Nations for recognition by 2011.
Threatening to exacerbate this antic behavior by our designated “peace partners” is the reported intention of the United States, in the person of President Obama, to regale the UN General Assembly with an American Middle East “peace package” when it reconvenes later this month.
Irrespective of what that “package” might contain, any such attempt by a third party to impose a “solution” to the conflict between Israel and the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria would perforce constitute a breach of all past international understandings, which reserve the conclusion of an agreement to the exclusive domain of the parties involved. Such an intervention, moreover, would not only infringe on Israel’s sovereignty, it would slam the window shut on whatever small hopes remain of bringing an end to the conflict.
The only guarantor of peace in this violent neighborhood is the presence of a strong, democratic Israel governing within defensible borders. Until its neighbors decide that peace is in their interest, the rest is dangerous wishful thinking .
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