by Stephen M. Flatow
This Gang of Six -- spent many years trying to convince us that Yasser Arafat was moderate and that parts of Jerusalem should become the capital of "Palestine"
America's
recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights is supported
by a broad cross-section of the American Jewish community – with the
glaring exception of six Jewish ex-State Department officials who always
manage to find a way to criticize Israel.
Dennis Ross, Daniel Kurtzer, Richard Haas,
Aaron Miller, Martin Indyk and Indyk's assistant, David Makovsky, have
all retired from the "peace-processing" business and are now busying
themselves posing as Mideast "experts" on talk shows and op-ed pages.
This Gang of Six, who spent so many years
trying to convince us that Yasser Arafat was moderate and that parts of
Jerusalem should become the capital of "Palestine," are now trotting out
all the reasons why the United States should not recognize the
legitimacy of Israel's control of the Golan.
Ross said in an interview with Foreign
Policy magazine that the U.S. action will "make it harder" for the Arab
world to support peace with Israel. That's dumb but at least it's not
weird. His colleagues' comments, by contrast, have been downright
bizarre.
Miller told The Washington Post that the
U.S. position "could incentivize" Iran and Hezbollah. Get that? Until
now, Iran and Hezbollah didn't have any incentives to hate America and
Israel but now they will. Brilliant.
Indyk tweeted that Russian President
Vladimir Putin "will use this as a pretext to justify Russia's
annexation of Crimea" and "the Israeli right will use it as a pretext
for Israel's annexation of the West Bank."
So much blather in so few words!
Putin, according to Indyk, needs a
"pretext" to justify occupying Crimea; he didn't have one until now
(which didn't seem to stop him, anyway) but now he will have one. Huh?
And, Indyk further imagines, "the Israeli
right" will use the Golan action as "a pretext for Israel's annexation
of the West Bank." Except for the inconvenient fact that the portion of
the Israeli Right that is in the government has never made any attempt
to annex it and the portion of the Israeli Right that is not in the
government has no power to annex it.
Makovsky, for his part, can't seem to
decide whom he hates more – the Israeli prime minister who doesn't want
to give the Golan to Syria or the American president who supports him.
"Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] was Trump before
there was Trump," Makovsky sputtered in an interview with The Christian
Science Monitor. Like U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is "not looking to be a unifying symbol of the
state." Awkward grammar, but you get the point: Trump is bad, Netanyahu
is worse.
Makovsky apparently thought he was being
very clever to point out (because I guess nobody has ever noticed this
before!) that "both leaders find themselves and their political
entourages under investigation by national judicial authorities – Mr.
Trump under the cloud of the Mueller investigation …" Too bad for
Makovsky that the Mueller report came out before the ink was dry on his
Christian Science Monitor interview.
Make no mistake about it: The only reason
to oppose American recognition of Israeli control of the Golan is if you
oppose Israeli control of the Golan. The Gang of Six spent decades
promoting a "peace process" that included giving the Golan Heights to
the genocidal Hafez Assad or, since his death, to his genocidal son,
Bashar Assad.
The latest missiles fired from Gaza into
Israel are a painful reminder of what would have happened to the Golan
if the Gang of Six had their way. Instead of having a terrorist
mini-state only on its southern border, Israel would now have terrorist
mini-states on both its southern and northeastern borders. Wonderful.
Because they live in the safe and
comfortable suburbs of New York City and Washington, D.C., Ross, Indyk,
Makovsky et al. have the luxury of pontificating about the need for
Israel to give up territory without ever having to deal personally with
the consequences of such withdrawals. But for the Israelis who now live
within missile range of Gaza – and who could have been within missile
range of the Syrians if they were on the Golan Heights – the
consequences are very real.
This article is reprinted from JNS.org.
Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. His book, “A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror," has just been published.
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/who-wants-israel-out-of-the-golan/?redirected=351827
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