It doesn’t matter what tack the U.S.S. Obama takes when trying to navigate between the Muslim/Arab world and Israel. The Arab League talks a big game about peace, but they refuse to make any “confidence-building measures” of their own. Not until Israel makes a full peace, returns to 1967 borders, and allows Palestinian refugees will the Arab League normalize relations with Israel. So Obama’s outreach to the Arab nations, asking them to show good-faith gestures toward Israel, falls on deaf ears. And this is why: When speaking to the UN General Assembly yesterday, President Obama rectified the incorrect history of Israel he referenced in his Cairo speech by pointing out that no, Israel is not a state that suddenly sprang into being in the Middle East after the Holocaust. Obama stated:
Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
The response to this from the president of the Arab League?
Commenting on Obama’s remarks regarding the Jewish people’s historic link to Israel, Moussa said that “throughout history, this was always Arab land.”
The peace talks will fail. The outreach will fail. Because the Arabs and Iranians refuse to acknowledge the millennial-old Jewish roots of the land of Israel, the once and future nation-state of the Jewish people.