Conrad Black: The Problem With "Land For Peace"

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It has been clear for decades that the pattern of international intervention in the Middle East has been to promote tangible and practically irrevocable concessions of land by Israel in exchange for insubstantial, easily and instantly revocable professions of reduced hostility, supposedly culminating in peaceful co-existence, from the Arabs. 

This is the problem of Land For Peace: Israel cedes the land but gets no closer to peace. -- Conrad Black, National Post

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Israel/USA/Palestine: It's Time To Give The Land Back

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Israel should go along with the Great One™ and accede to the Nobel Peace Prize winner 's prescription for world peace: roll back the borders of Israel to 1967 (more or less).

1967 was when, you know, the surrounding Arab states ganged up on Israel and Israel beat them back fair-and-square. In six days. Now Obama wants Israel to just hand the land back.

And I think Israel should go along with the US. But, there has to be some concessions on the part of the US. before Israel makes such a courageous and counter-intuitive move. Israel should agree to roll back its borders to 1967 when the US agrees to roll back its border with Mexico.

The constant conflicts in the Texas region in the mid 19th century eventually led to the Mexican-American War, which began in 1846 and ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Due to the treaty Mexico lost more than 960,000 square miles (about 2,500,000 km²) of land, 55%[7] of its national territory, including what is today California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma in addition, all disputes over Texas and the disputed territory between Rio Grande and Rio Nueces were abandoned. Five years later the Gadsden Purchase completed the creation of the current United States – Mexico border. These purchases left approximately 300,000 people living in the once disputed lands, many of whom were Mexican nationals. Following the establishment of the current border a number of towns sprang up along this boundary and many of the Mexican citizens were given free land in the northern regions of Mexico in exchange for returning and repopulating the area.[8] -- Wiki

Such an act would be a demonstration of good faith on the part of the United States and would win the admiration of the world. Give conquered lands back? Sure. You go first.

And that's the way the Ball bounces.

Oh, yes. And Canada wants Fort Blunder back. There can never be peace where there's permanent occupation.

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British Muslims For Israel

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"British Muslims For Israel"

No, you have not vectored into some bizarre alternate universe; you are still bouncing with The Ball on terra firma.

Here.

I guess these guys are a foil for "Jews For The Destruction of Israel".

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Israel: State of Fear

Ten reasons for Israel to fear.

From The Despair of Zion by Walter Reich:

1. The Palestinians will never accept the existence of Israel, and systematically teach their children that they must never do so, either.

2. Palestinians will always demand more concessions until there is no Israel.

3. Palestinians attack Israel from behind civilian human shields, but any response by Israel, however careful, that harms those civilians is condemned, while the tactic itself, which is a crime of war, is ignored.

4. Increasingly, the military war against Israel, in which Israel can defend itself, is being replaced by a public  relations war, in which Israel invariably loses.

5. The worldwide campaign to delegitimize Israel is selective and hypocritical, but is finding increasing support.

6. The most vicious canard of all—that Israel is a Nazi state—is, with increasing frequency, hurled against the Jewish state.

7. Even if there is a two-state solution, what will happen the day after tomorrow?

8. Meanwhile, Iran is readying its nuclear warheads.

9. The idea is spreading that U.S. support for Israel is the root cause of America’s problems in the
Middle East.

10. Not pursuing a two-state solution leaves only a one-state solution—an alternative that is profoundly anti-Zionist.

Full article here.

Quote of the Day: "The sad truth is the West Bank wall has worked"

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They haven't had a car bombing in two and a half years. And the sad truth really is that the wall with the West Bank has actually worked.... The wall is functioning. And the Gaza strip is so small and so isolated they feel that those folks, the Hamas folks are not that big of a threat... -- Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel

Time Magazine is sad the wall the Israelis built to keep the terrorists killers out has "worked".  It breaks us all up, Time. If only more Israelis had gotten blown up. Oh, the humanity!  All we are saying, is give Israelis in pieces a chance.

Let's hope the guy misspoke or was having an off day, because I don't believe the left actually wants to see Israelis killed.

Source: Newsbusters.

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