August 19, 2005
blood-suckers...
David Frum writes,
...After the experience of the 1990s, few people retain an illusions about the likely character of any Palestinian state. The Palestinian leadership is corrupt through and through. The only effective opposition to that leadership is violent and extremist. Palestinian public opinion utterly rejects coexistence with Israel. A Palestinian state, whatever its borders, will wage terror war against Israel – and give sanctuary to Islamic extremists from around the world. It will murder Israelis and threaten the security of Europeans and Americans....
...In Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield there is a character who answers every request with a sigh: Ah, if it were up to him, he would of course say “yes” with pleasure – but his partner, Mr. Jorrocks,* is so very difficult ….. In just such a way, European and American political leaders favor a “peace process” that moves the Palestinians ever closer to statehood, without ever quite reaching it; a process that positions the Israelis as the Mr. Jorrocks of the world.
Ariel Sharon has decided to put an end to this play.
Sounds likely to me. "World leaders" don't really want the Palestinians to have a state, because that will quickly reveal the dishonesty of the world's favorite lie--that the twisted evil nature of the of the Palestinians is all the fault of Israel. And the so-called leaders of the Palestinians don't want a state either. Without it they can be thugs and hoodlums, plunder and destroy their own people, and get a free pass--it's all the fault of the Jews! But if they have a state they will have to actually lead, or be revealed as the blood-suckers they are.
And Western leftists and "liberals" don't want a Palestinian state, which is why they are so incensed about the "wall." As things are now they get a double treat. They can indulge their sick souls in endless orgies of Jew-bashing, and then congratulate themselves for "helping the oppressed."
Sharon wants to force the Palestinians to have their state. And then, you see, since the Palestinians' problems are all caused by evil Jews, those problems will all go away. Right?
Posted by John Weidner at August 19, 2005 10:37 PM | TrackBackThis is a complex dynamic, but I think yours is the best description and analysis I have read so far.
Posted by: jerryhenson at August 20, 2005 03:43 AMI think you are vastly underestimating the ability of The chattering classes and Palestinians to continue to blame The Jews. The next step will be to force Israel to either control the borders or suffer attacks from large quantities of modern arms. I am already seeing pre-emptive blame for the state of the Gazan economy on Israeli "blockades".
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at August 21, 2005 11:12 AMOn the other hand, Egypt has already moved troops in to maintain the order that was being provided by Israel. Hopefully it will become their problem. Which is perfectly fair, since there never was a country called "Palestine." It's just a geographical term, and the people living there were Egyptians, Jordanians, or Syrians.
Posted by: John Weidner at August 21, 2005 01:52 PMSee what Frum is saying now?
"By now it should be clear that President Bush's words on the subject of Iraq have ceased connecting with the American public. His speech yesterday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars is the latest - and one of the most serious to date - manifestations of the problem. The polls tell us that the American public is losing heart. A substantial majority (56%) now say that the war is going either "very badly" or "moderately badly." More than 50% now regard the war as a mistake. One-third want an immediate and total withdrawal. Maybe most fatefully: a plurality now say that they believe that the president deliberately misled the country into war. "
And he's since followed it up on the NRO by noting that hundreds of emails have come in from other conservatives, most of whom agree with him...
Now from a purely political standpoint, I have to say, when Bush is losing the winger pundits, and even their audiences are increasingly non-supportive of Bush, well, this can only be really good news!
