Musical Armaments
As in musical chairs. Shifting about. Trying out for supremacy of position. Instead of musical chairs, it's the shifting about of really serious arms. Succumbing to the blandishments of outsiders to make goodwill efforts. To demonstrate to one's deadly enemies that you do, after all, despite that they've proven time and again they have your untimely demise at heart, that you're the better person, and you forgive them.Trusting that these generous actions will have the ultimate effect of instilling trust and the wish to counter your good deeds with those of their own.
In the case of Israel, grappling with the pressure of international condemnation against her half-century and more of strife with the Palestinians, desperately seeking to satisfy the demands of those who don't have to live with ongoing assaults, while also bargaining with the assaulters. Here is the United States, long a supporter of the State of Israel, and coincidentally, also in support of the needs of the Palestinians to lead their own independent lives freely and responsibly, urging Israel to accede to Palestinian demands.
Not only consider giving up the eternal dream of Jerusalem, give up the ancient lands of Judea and Samaria, shift borders back to "acceptable" limits, and think about accepting the return of millions of Palestinians who have never lived within the borders of Israel, but allow shipments of guns and ammunition to be delivered to Fatah.
The better to stave off onslaughts by Hamas against the legitimacy of authority of Fatah within the Palestinian Authority.
Tamp down those memories of a like number of Jews expelled from Arab countries, and bereft of compensation for their goods and properties. It is only compensation due to Palestinians that Israel need consider. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appears on the cusp of agreeing to any and all demands.
Free hundreds of terror-inspired Palestinians. Forget that the IDF's Cpl.Shalit, forget the daily Qassam rockets; these are trifling no-account issues.
Moreover, Israel and Russia have combined efforts to produce an effect. Israel has convinced Russia to provide Chechnya and Chechen rebels with armaments and ammunition in a sure-fire effort to convince the Chechens that Russia is their friend, not their enemy, and is willing to provide them with all that they demand in the interests of living together peacefully.
This is a fiction, you say? Russia would never agree to such an outrageous, self-inflicted wound?
What about the reverse, that Israel and Russia are co-operating in a measure to supply the PA with hundreds of guns, millions of bullets and 50 armoured vehicles? Another fiction, surely, since don't we know from past experiences that all these "good-will" gifts will eventually end up in the hands of Hamas?
Well, the IDF and Israel's Security Services regard it as a joke, albeit a wickedly dangerous one, and refuse to support it. Nonetheless, the transfer must take place.
Ehud Olmert will donate a thousand guns and two million bullets to PA forces; yet another gesture of co-operation with Fatah, whose charter still calls for the elimination of Israel. This is the "moderate" choice that Israel is trustingly working with, in strenuous efforts to bring about a long hoped-for peace settlement with the PA.
Palestinians deserve no less. Palestinians have for so long been fed a hopeless line of hateful propaganda against Israel they hardly know what to demand of their leaders, and what to support to gain them a future.
The lunatic charade of dealing with reasonable leaders interested in peace with their neighbours marches on.
Labels: Israel, Political Realities, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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