by Tzvika Fogel
The unpredictable
Middle East obligates us to reassess the situation around us almost on a
daily basis. The Arab world is a strange brew. We see, on the one hand,
the terror armies of Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida and the Islamic, and
the vulnerable states of Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon on the other. We have
Palestinians, Sudanese, futureless Syrian revolutionaries without
national identities, facing radical Islamist warmongers like Iran, Qatar
and Turkey, who put the future in jeopardy. All of these together
create possibilities that even the most gifted of Hollywood script
writers could never imagine. Yesterday's enemy could become tomorrow's
ally, and whatever happens two days from now is anyone's guess.
The Western world is
beginning to internalize the situation, which does not coincide with
common sense or healthy logic, and is starting to understand that the
only way to tidy this mess up is not to surrender to it. If we fail
today, with international forces working together, to treat these
poisonous Islamist tree branches, then we will be forced to chop the
entire tree down in the not-so-distant future. No one wants to fight a
third world war after the Islamists acquire a nuclear bomb with which to
send us back to the Stone Age. Or, in the words of Albert Einstein:
"The fourth world war will be fought with sticks and stones."
Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas' malicious and deceitful speech at the U.N.
General Assembly was predictable. At the end of the day, what more can
be expected of a Palestinian politician incapable of making decisions,
who extends his hand to the leaders of Hamas in Gaza and conducts a
revolving door policy with Hamas terrorists in Judea and Samaria; a man
who speaks about peace and tolerance in English and about the right of
return in literary Arabic. For Abbas, alleviating tensions with Hamas,
which he despises more than anything, is more important than peace with
us. He is more afraid for his life than for the future of the
Palestinians. He is completely devoid of the leadership skills and
charisma required of a leader who must make decisions that involve
compromise, which in turn can breathe new hope into the peace process.
Whoever had pinned
their hopes on Abbas to lead the Palestinian population toward peace and
coexistence, instead found the true Mahmoud Abbas, in all his glory
after his speech to the U.N. Indeed, this is the Damascus-educated
Abbas, a citizen of Qatar and member of the Black September terrorist
organization that perpetrated the slaughter of Israeli athletes at the
Olympic Games in Munich, whose doctoral dissertation was primarily based
on Holocaust denial.
Abbas is the tailwind
behind the rickety terrorist sail boat, who believes he will succeed
with words, a suit and a distorted presentation of victimhood, to
destroy the Jewish state. We fight to bring about peace; they want peace
in order to prepare for the next war.
"Peace is made with
enemies," said Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin back in the day, but our
enemies do not want peace. Hezbollah, the ayatollah's henchman, is
unfamiliar with the term peace. Hamas recognizes the word but does not
recognize us. The moderate Palestinians recognize us in a limited
capacity and know the term, but are unwilling to participate in the
peace process, with all that it entails.
Therefore, out of an
understanding of the regional reality, which is simply just another
branch of the same poisonous tree, we have to internalize that the only
recourse is to force the current situation to an extreme point. The
cancerous growth will either be removed or the limb will be lost; the
branch will heal or we will cut it off. The Palestinians must decide if
they want to reach an agreement as one, without threats and without
weapons, or continue fighting amongst each other. In the meantime,
instead of falling for the lip service of Palestinian politicians, I
would rather put my faith in the IDF.
Brig. Gen. (ret.) Zvika Fogel is a former chief of staff of the IDF Southern Command.
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10133
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