Condoleezza Rice showed sensitivity gap and her usual political blindness when took Olmert and Abbas onto the balcony overlooking Jerusalem’ Old City. Olmert showed his usual subservience to the paying parties when followed Rice. That’s besides the political blunder: the Prime Minister of Israel conducts negotiations with a sworn enemy in the capital of the Jewish State – in a hotel room, as a traveling salesman.
Rice need not look on the Old City, nor show it to Abbas in the implicit promise. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, not subject to negotiations. That’s not a thorny issue, disputed city or whatever other euphemism the liberals attach to it. The Jews don’t have to justify holding on to Jerusalem with religious or historical claims. We will hold the city because, of all nations, only we prayed for two thousand years, “Next year – in Jerusalem!”
Israeli government betrays human dignity of the Jews, the lives of the fallen Jewish soldiers and the Jews who suffered and died to make Israel happen when acquiesce to the other nations’ settling the fate of Israel. Watch the Quartet. The US embargoed weapons shipments to Israel during the War of Independence, and kept Israel from preempting in 1967 (unsuccessfully) and 1973 (successfully). The US arms Egypt and provides assistance to Palestine. Russia and the Europeans, hereditary anti-Semites. The UN, a conference of Muslims and barbarians. Israeli rulers who submit to the Quartet must have lost every bit of brain and respect for the Jews.
The besieged Israeli society is convulsed. Everything crumbles: faith and ideology from within, security and borders from without. From the ultimate hope of reestablishing the Jewish state in 1947 to almost fulfillment in 1967 to the Mideast ghetto in 2005. Countries that fall down search for culprits and sublimate their discontent, raging on unrelated subjects. Thus Israel engages in the cleansing campaigns against president, top military officials, police, government, and courts. It’s time to blot out the ruling clique.
