Comments on: The Netanyahu speech http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/14/7831 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/14/7831/comment-page-1#comment-36741 Michael Lonie Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:37:20 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7831#comment-36741 Israel "got rid of the settlements" in Gaza and handed the place over to the Palestinian Arabs. The result was that the Arabs set up a terrorist base for making war on Israel but have made no move towards setting up viable and functional governmental institutions there (nor have they in Judea and Samaria for that matter). Why should Israel expect any different result from handing over more territory to Arabs? Obama and his "realist" advisors are fools if they think they can gain new allies and friends for the USA by betraying Israel. All that will gain the USA is a deserved contempt for being the kind of country which will betray our allies and friends out of opportunism and crass expediency, and not very foresighted opportunism and expediency at that. Israel “got rid of the settlements” in Gaza and handed the place over to the Palestinian Arabs. The result was that the Arabs set up a terrorist base for making war on Israel but have made no move towards setting up viable and functional governmental institutions there (nor have they in Judea and Samaria for that matter). Why should Israel expect any different result from handing over more territory to Arabs?

Obama and his “realist” advisors are fools if they think they can gain new allies and friends for the USA by betraying Israel. All that will gain the USA is a deserved contempt for being the kind of country which will betray our allies and friends out of opportunism and crass expediency, and not very foresighted opportunism and expediency at that.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/14/7831/comment-page-1#comment-36740 Alex Bensky Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:33:49 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7831#comment-36740 All I heard so far was a Canadian Broadcasting Co. story on the hourly news report this evening and it was predictably slanted. Netanyahu has overturned the peace process by refusing to halt the settlements and isn't offering the Palestinians any actual independence. It also claimed this was the first recognition of the right to a Palestinian state by any Israeli leader. I realize it's a brief story on a brief newscast, but of course Netanyahu is not the first Israeli leader to agree to the idea of a Palestinian state. And as everyone reading this blog knows, we are still waiting for an acknowledgment from a Palestinian leader about the idea of a Jewish state. And the settlements were according to the reporter the stumbling block; I don't think many other reporters and commentators are going to mention in the next few days, oh, I don't know, how about a Palestinian effort to stop the vicious hatred and calls to wipe out Israel which pour from every available source? All I heard so far was a Canadian Broadcasting Co. story on the hourly news report this evening and it was predictably slanted. Netanyahu has overturned the peace process by refusing to halt the settlements and isn’t offering the Palestinians any actual independence. It also claimed this was the first recognition of the right to a Palestinian state by any Israeli leader.

I realize it’s a brief story on a brief newscast, but of course Netanyahu is not the first Israeli leader to agree to the idea of a Palestinian state. And as everyone reading this blog knows, we are still waiting for an acknowledgment from a Palestinian leader about the idea of a Jewish state. And the settlements were according to the reporter the stumbling block; I don’t think many other reporters and commentators are going to mention in the next few days, oh, I don’t know, how about a Palestinian effort to stop the vicious hatred and calls to wipe out Israel which pour from every available source?

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