PEACENICKS JEOPARDIZE ISRAEL'S SECURITY

I have written a number of blogs in which I debunked the term "moderate Palestinians" and pointed out that the Palestinians and the other Arabs of the Middle East have vowed to exterminate the State of Israel. Unfortunately, Israel's left-wing and its Peace Now movement has been seduced by the siren song of "moderate Palestinians" to live peacefully in their own state, side by side with the Jewish state. The peacenicks are willing to jeopardize Israel's security by suing for peace at any cost.

Israel's only ally, the United States, has also succumbed to the myth that Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement are willing to live side by side in peace with the Jewish State. Nothing could be further from the truth. For the Palestinians, the "two state solution" is just a step on the path to the eventual disappearance of Israel.

Moshe Yaalon, former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Force, has written a long essay in which he advocates a totally different approach to the peace process than that taken by Israel up to now because of relentless pressure from the international community. In his essay, Yaalon validated my position that the Palestinians and their Arab brethren are not really interested in a two state sollution. Here is that part of Yaalon's essay:

'Arafat’s views on this issue (the existence of Israel) reflected a consensus among the Palestinian leadership. For them, the Oslo accords were merely the starting point for the next stage in the struggle against Israel.

Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military theoretician, famously stated that "war is a mere continuation of policy by other means."

Palestinian policy was, and continues to be, the continuation of war by other means. After all, Oslo offered the Palestine Liberation Organization quasi-sovereignty in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—a strategic benefit the organization could never have hoped to achieve had it confined itself exclusively to armed struggle. Such an accomplishment, they reasoned, justified certain reconciliatory gestures toward the Zionist enemy, although most of them remained rather vacuous.

"One foothold on the land of Palestine is more precious, and a thousand times more important to me, than words on paper," Arafat explicitly declared at the opening session of the Palestinian National Council in April 1996. The idea behind this pronouncement was particularly well stated by Faisal Husseini, who enjoyed a reputation as a moderate Palestinian leader and was a favorite of the Israeli left.

Shortly before his death in May of 2001, Husseini gave an interview to the Egyptian weekly Al-Arabi in which he stated, "Our final goal is to liberate all of historical Palestine from the river to the sea," and confirmed that the Oslo accords were a "Trojan horse" intended to induce Israel and the United States to open their "barricaded walls" to the Palestine Liberation Organization.'