Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:08:31 PM
In an interview with Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal printed in yesterday’s New York Times the terror master said that rocket attacks on Israel have stopped and that his group now seeks a two state solution. “I promise the American administration and the international community that we will be part of the solution, period,” said Meshaal who stopped short of accepting Israel’s right to exist but “urged outsiders to ignore the Hamas Charter which calls for Israel’s obliteration.” The article goes on to say “Meshaal did not offer to revoke the charter, but said it was 20 years old, adding, “We are shaped by our experiences.” Has the leopard at least changed one of his spots or a fraction thereof? Is Hamas beginning to see the light that Israel is here to stay and that destroying her-short of nuclear war-is unrealistic? Certainly not! Meshaal isn’t anymore of a reformed Jew hating terrorist than was Israel’s great peace partner, Nobel Prize winner Yassir Arafat who wrapped himself in the banner of peace for years before starting the second Intifada. Like Arafat Meahaal
will go to his grave consumed with murderous hatred for the Jewish State. But what is Meshaal up to? Is he trying to entrap our appeasing president into believing that he’s moderating himself and that peace may at last have a chance? That’s how it seems. Will Obama fall for it as Clinton did when he was willingly deceived by Arafat?
Before Obama moves forward on a new roadmap to peace he needs to recall the massive power blackout that hit Honolulu on the sixth day of his Christmas vacation just hours before Israel's invasion of Gaza to punish Hamas and stop the rocket attacks. As Christmas celebrates the nativity of Christ his birth took place in ancient Israel when Roman legions occupied that land and beat its rebellious people into submission in two terrible wars with religious zealots. This, in my view, was no mere coincidence: Gaza, and perhaps the West Bank (both part of ancient Israel), needs to be reoccupied by the IDF and Hamas thoroughly broken and destroyed before there can be peace. The Christmas blackout in Honolulu was an ominous sign warning Obama that engaging Israel's enemies and trying to force a premature peace before Hamas is defeated (and the Palestinian Authority reformed) would backfire; it would run the risk of worsening the conflict and plunging the region into greater turmoil and darkness (see
THE PERILS OF A WAR WEARY NATION IN THE TRAGIC AGE OF BARACK OBAMA ). Until Isarel has a real reliable peace partner, a courageous Palestinian Anwar Sadat, there is less than a zero chance that peace can be achieved.
Postscript
So that I'm not misunderstood what I mean is that the Islamic zealots of Hamas have about as much chance of defeating modern Israel as had the ancient Jewish zealots in liberating their country from Roman rule. After two crushing defeats the ancient Jews finally came to their senses and accepted the Pax Romana (the Roman Peace) as God's will. Hopefully, after enough tragedy, bloodshed and suffering the Palestinians will accept Israel's right to exist as Allah's will. Not to do so imperils their existence.