If J Street has its way, he will – from P J Tatler:
There is a great deal of speculation that in the wake of the bin Laden’s killing President Obama might try to curry Arab favor by striking out at Israel. There are some reports the President will do just that in a special Middle East address planned for delivery at the State Department on Thursday.
The reports are that the President will issue new demands upon the Jewish state to unilaterally withdraw to 1967 borders and make other concessions in the name of the peace process. This prospect was stoked by an article in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, which was reported yesterday in the Tatler by colleague Bryan Preston.
Now it appears pacifists in Israel and the left leaning J Street organization are anticipating such a call and pushing for it with an ad campaign that will include a full page ad in the New York Times on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Washington visit scheduled for next week. Over the years there have been numerous reports the President’s advisers have regularly briefed J Street leaders in advance on the President’s Middle East policy…
Remember that “1967 borders” means that the Golan Heights go back to Syria, and the “old city” of Jerusalem goes to the Palestinian leadership…which recently made up with the terrorists of Hamas under the auspices of a soon-to-be-Moslem-Brotherhood Egypt. Israel, back against the wall, fought a series of wars against extremely long odds and won a bit of security for herself…and she is to surrender all of this in return for a vague promise that such a capitulation will bring peace. There is a word to describe this, and it begins with “bull”.
The only thing such a move would do is whet the appetite of the Islamists for even more. The reason for all the rocket attacks, suicide bombings, having kids throw rocks at soldiers – all of the effort has been directed at just this goal: getting Israel to surrender the gains of 1967 in preparation for further attacks on Israel, proper. The Islamists don’t want Jerusalem – they want Tel Aviv. Remember, to an Islamist, once a bit of territory becomes Islamic, it remains Islamic for all time to come. This is why they still claim Spain as part of Islam – and they were forced out of that country more than 500 years ago.
I hope this is just a rumor and that Obama won’t go down this path – but he’s horrendously inexperienced in these matters and simply does not understand the mendacity and savagery at the bottom of Islamism. These are not people you can get along with – these are people you can only fight until they are so badly beaten that they’ll take peace on any terms…then you can be generous with them, but not before. A mis-step here by Obama will set a bad course for the next 20 years…I pray he doesn’t take it.
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