Tel-Chai Nation

The Washington Times has said it correctly in their latest editorial, (via Israpundit) about how Israel truly has no peace partner.

Ever since he signed a cease-fire agreement with Israel in February, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has pursued a policy toward rejectionist organizations that is strikingly similar to the approach pursued by Yasser Arafat following the 1993 Oslo Accords. Instead of using force against those organizations that remained committed to terror, Palestinian leaders embarked on what amounted to a plan to beg the terrorists to behave themselves.

Absolutely correct. It was all an entirely phony act all along that Arafat employed, and Abbas is no different.

Also, Shmuel Katz, the respected veteran essayist, writes in the Jerusalem Post that a palestinian state will not bring peace. And, as he says here:

"It may not be fashionable to say so, but the evidence is overwhelming: If the Arabs were given a state in a part of Palestine, they would surely accept it as the next of the "phases" for attaining the rest of the country – which they have been forecasting for years. It would inevitably make a serious contribution to the grievous weakening of Israel, strategically and politically. It is illusory in the extreme – and shockingly misleading – to suggest that it will bring peace."

Absolutely correct. I do wonder if even president Bush understands that?

I once met and shook hands with Katz at a ceremony in his honor here in Jerusalem. A very wise and well-learned man indeed, and I would very strongly recommend his writings.

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