by Prof. Ron Breiman
The head of the
opposition never misses an opportunity to attack the prime minister and
demand a "brave peace," which is actually a cowards' "peace": fleeing,
handing over the center of the country and half of Jerusalem, turning
hundreds of thousands of Jews out of their homes in their country and
putting millions of others in danger. MK Isaac Herzog (Labor) and his
buddies -- even in the coalition -- are doing everything to see that the
blame for the collapse of the fraudulent process falls on Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the Orwellian media
dialogue, the Oslo march of folly is known by the code name "peace
process," even after it has been proven that the policy of land for
terror led to the Oslo War. The result will be the same if this process,
which rests on incorrect assumptions, is allowed to continue. A "peace"
based on a construction freeze and on barring Jews from living in the
heart of their country -- which if it happened anywhere else we would
call racism -- is not democratic, not moral, not Jewish, not Zionist.
Anyone who espouses it is neither enlightened nor liberal. He is a
racist.
The Orwellian media
dialogue is discussing the failure and the success of the process. But
the "failure" of the process -- accompanied by a list of dictates by the
Abbas/Hamas twins -- is what actually gives a glimmer of hope, of a
return to our senses, and a new horizon by the mere fact that Israel
will not try to mollify the Holocaust deniers in Ramallah and the "fair"
intermediary from Washington. A chance to return to the Zionist goal --
gathering the Jewish people in the Land of Israel -- has been created,
and that is what the prime minister should be busy doing.
The present time does
not allow for a true peace, anyway. The upheavals in neighboring nations
just prove that Israel must be steel itself and not commit suicide on
the altar of "peace." The Jordanian regime is still hanging on, but it
won't forever, and it would be best if Israel waited until the
Palestinian majority in Jordan established its state there. The American
government, which has been involved in what is happening, has failed to
recognize the processes taking place in Arab countries from Egypt to
Iran, and even though there are other burning international issues, U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry is working day and night, banging his
head and ours against a brick wall in a pointless attempt to convince PA
President Mahmoud Abbas to talk with Israel about the latter committing
suicide in the framework of a two-state "solution." It's no wonder that
even the U.S.'s loyal ally is losing faith.
The same thing happened
in Eastern Europe, where the West took hypocritical action that
encouraged the Ukrainian revolutionaries to employ nondemocratic methods
to bring about a change in government. Washington got dragged in. When
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to these events in his
neighbor state in his own way by annexing the Crimean Peninsula, which
is historically and ethnically Russian, the response by the U.S. and
Europe was limp and Chamberlain-like.
The message created was
weak and hypocritical. Putin's moves following the events in his arena
were not reminiscent of Hitler's actions on the eve of World War II, but
rather of the steps taken by U.S. President John Kennedy in 1962.
Kennedy made it clear to the U.S.S.R. what the U.S. would stand for when
it came to agitation near its borders. Putin acted similarly and made
it clear that Russia is a power that takes care of its own interests. In
effect, he broadcast to the world, and to the U.S. especially: No more
Pax Americana as it has existed for decades. A new era has dawned, Pax
Putina.
The lesson to Israel:
Don't follow American dictates blindly and don't depend on American
guarantees that haven't proved themselves anywhere. Nice words and good
will aren't peace and aren't a substitute for security.
Professor Ron Breiman is the former chairman of Professors for a Strong Israel.
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7983
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