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Charles Krauthammer's latest exercise in defeatism and telling the Israeli public what to think and believe found him telling Mordecai Twersky that Israel's given up its claim to what he calls the "west bank", because he doesn't want to use the Hebrew names; it'd be too politically incorrect for an awful man of his sort (Hat tip: Israpundit):

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and political commentator, believes Israel has “given away” its claim to the West Bank and may also be 'losing' what he called the “battle to hang on to Jerusalem.”

“Israel's diplomacy, unfortunately, tragically, catastrophically ... has given away the legitimacy of its claim on the West Bank,” Krauthammer told “Inside Israel's” Mordechai Twersky in a wide-ranging phone interview, April 12. “Now you have to face reality; now you live in a new world, and you have to accept it.”

In a highly controversial column last September titled, “Your Move, Mr. Abbas,” Krauthammer wrote of Israel: “No serious player believes it can hang on forever to the West Bank.”

A week later, in her column for the Jerusalem Post, Senior Contributing Editor Caroline Glick assailed Krauthammer for his remarks. “Given Krauthammer’s tremendous influence in shaping public opinion and policy in the US, his arrogant and false portrayal of reality is debilitating,” Glick wrote.

But in his interview with Twersky, Krauthammer removed himself from the equation.

“Once Israel conceded the Palestinian narrative in Oslo – this is Israeli concessions, this is not me,” said Krauthammer. “This is Israel as a nation. It conceded the legitimacy of the Palestinian revolution; it sort of accepted the Palestinian narrative, denigrated its own narrative of 1948-49. It got the world to accept Palestinian nationalism, nationhood – that's what Oslo did.” he said.

Recent events in the Middle East have not changed Krauthammer's view that Israel will have to relinquish parts of the West Bank.

“No, I think that nothing has changed in that respect,” said Krauthammer, who also cited the issue of Arab demographics as a key reason.

So even that horrifying murder in Itamar and continued bombings of Sderot and Ashkelon do not convince him of what a catastrophe could follow if Israel continues to make concessions? No surprise a man who works for an awful paper like the Wash. Post would be so cold. It's atrocious how he tells us we must accept this period, and does not seem to understand that the world, which he doesn't even explain clearly, already wanted a palestinian state to undermine Israel, as Britain's mindset could tell. Nor does he realize the Arab demographics he cites are fairly exaggerated, as Israel Matzav notes.

To make matters worse:

...Krauthammer said Israel cannot take on the world.

“Your dealing with a world that has already changed its mind, sort of accepted it as a given that there will be a Palestinian state,” he said. “I think Israel has the right to say Oslo is torn up and let’s go back to 1992, but you cannot have that in history. That’s just not how the world works. If Israel were a great power it could probably enforce that over the world. Israel is a tiny state. It can’t enforce it over anyone. And the world will not accept that. They came under Israel’s tutelage in 1993 to accept this claims.”

When Twersky suggested that Arab demographic arguments were based upon figures not universally accepted, Krauthammer responded: “Let’s say that I would accept your numbers, what would you have? A bi-national state, with 53-55 percent Israelis and the other Arabs who don’t believe in a Jewish state…you want to govern that for the rest of eternity?” Krauthammer asked.

“The world is not going to allow it, number one,” Krauthammer continued. “And secondly, its infinitely more desirable to cut yourself off, to do what a Ben-Gurion would have done, to live in a state that is overwhelmingly Jewish, and to live the way Israel was intended to be. History is going to leave you no choice, anyway. But even if it did, I think it would be the unwise choice.”

There's something very unpleasant in what Krauthammer is saying about Israel's size, which reeks of a "master race" theory. And aside from that, he even condones segregation. And just how does he know Ben-Gurion actually supported his whole notion? His remarks are offensive to any sensible Christian to boot, and come to think of it, he's even being insulting to black African descendants of Israel; will he next say that, when there's a larger community of blacks in Israel, that whites and blacks should be separate as well?

Of course, if memory serves, Krauthammer also hasn't researched the Koran, another fatal flaw in his standings, and that's why no sensible European should look to him for good advice.

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