Partners\u2026The Ultimate Trojan Horse<\/p>\n
by Gerald A. Honigman<\/p>\n
Caroline Glick\u2019s masterpiece, “Grounded In Fantasy,” appeared in the June 18th edition of the Jerusalem Post. It is must reading for all interested in what\u2019s happening in Gaza and beyond these days.<\/p>\n
While many of us have been writing about these things, the gal definitely has a way with words. I was almost convinced not to write this piece, since between what I and others penned earlier and Glick\u2019s recent column, all bases–for heads not buried ostrich-style in the sand–should have been already covered.<\/p>\n
Leave it to the Associated Press and Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Olmert, however, to convince me otherwise\u2026<\/p>\n
On the same day Glick\u2019s editorial appeared, Olmert was quoted in an AP article stating that Israel would be a \u201cgenuine partner\u201d of a new Palestinian government and promised to consider releasing millions of dollars in frozen tax funds to it.<\/p>\n
As has repeatedly been pointed out, there\u2019s no real difference between what our State Department would have us believe to be Abbas\u2019s latter day Arafatian good cops and Hamas\u2019s bad cops. <\/p>\n
There is no doubt that both seek the destruction of the State of the Jews. And both have been honest about this (Hamas more than Fatah). Abbas\u2019s boys simply play the game better for Western consumption to gain all kinds of support–and, again, have said so. <\/p>\n
Why won\u2019t the Foggy Folks listen? And President Bush?<\/p>\n
As has been repeated often–but not sinking in to those creating the fiction of Fatah \u201cmoderates\u201d–Abbas\u2019s folks have called any and all dealings with the Jews merely a Trojan Horse, each unilateral concession gained from Israel since the Oslo fiasco bringing them one step closer in their admitted destruction in stages plans. Pressured by its American friends, Israel\u2019s weak leaders have, unfortunately, played along with this dangerous game.<\/p>\n
With Hamas now in control in Gaza–and in possession of huge quantities of American military equipment, besides what\u2019s being smuggled freely via Egypt from other (especially Iranian) sources–President Bush and the State Department are now pressing for the Jews to allow Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) to be turned into another Gaza.<\/p>\n
But, it will be said that Fatah and Abbas are different\u2026<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s kidding whom here?<\/p>\n
Fatah\u2019s goals for creating \u201cPalestine\u201d from the River to the Sea have never changed\u2026and won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Forcing Israel back to its 1949, 9-mile wide armistice line existence will simply bring most of its population and industry within easy range of Fatah\u2019s American weapons. And that, along with the moderate Abbas\u2019s pledge that he\u2019ll never stop demanding that Israel agree to be swamped by millions of alleged \u201creturning\u201d jihadist refugees, makes any such \u201cdeal \u201d a joke. Fatah and its affiliates have as much or more Jewish blood on their hands as Hamas.<\/p>\n
What does Israel get for this proposed \u201cpartnership?\u201d<\/p>\n
A hudna\u2026ceasefire. As the Arafatians–not Hamas–like to point out, the same thing their prophet, Muhammad, granted to his enemies until he was strong enough to conquer them. And this is not to say that an actual treaty with Fatah would be worth the paper it would be written on considering the agreements Abbas\u2019s \u201cmoderates\u201d have already reneged upon\u2026before the ascendancy of Hamas.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the same questions need to be repeatedly asked over and over again\u2026<\/p>\n
Where is the evidence the Foggy Folks offer for Fatah\u2019s alleged moderation and acceptance of a permanent Jewish State as its neighbor?<\/p>\n
Are Fatah\u2019s web sites, schools, mosques, television and radio stations, press, etc. and so forth spreading this message of \u201cacceptance\u201d around to their own people–whom poll after poll show that, if Israel withdrew from all of the disputed lands, would mostly seek Israel\u2019s destruction anyway?<\/p>\n
No, they definitely are not. <\/p>\n
Webster\u2019s New World College Dictionary defines partner as a person who takes part in some activity in common with another\u2026sharing its profits and risks.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, as we saw once again in that AP article, the wrong party once again jumped at the opportunity at \u201cpartnership\u201d here.<\/p>\n
Olmert still lives the leftist fantasy of Arabs giving up their claim of virtually the entire region as being part of the Dar ul-Islam and\/or purely Arab patrimony.<\/p>\n
Please, Arabs, what can we do to make you accept us?<\/p>\n
Sickening.<\/p>\n
With Fatah\u2019s chestnuts now at least temporarily being pulled out of the Hamas fire, one might think that Abbas would be seeking a real partnership with Israel himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo! He can\u2019t do that,\u201d some will say, \u201cit will make him a traitor!\u201d<\/p>\n
Precisely\u2026<\/p>\n
Israel will be suicidal granting such huge concessions in land, aid, and so forth to folks who still can\u2019t reconcile with the right of Jews to have in one, tiny, reborn state what Arabs insist upon having almost two dozen of for themselves. It\u2019s bad enough that many others (i.e. America) are now insisting upon this; the Jews, themselves, don\u2019t have to be a \u201cpartner\u201d in this endeavor. Who will stop, for example, that independent Fatahland from importing all kinds of sophisticated arms and placing them right in Israel\u2019s backyard? Don\u2019t count on the Foggy Folks or anyone else\u2026<\/p>\n
While we\u2019re discussing meanings, Arabs must learn what the word \u201ccompromise\u201d is all about–especially the territorial variety–if anything more is expected to be handed to them, once again, by the Jews. <\/p>\n
And fagetabout millions of alleged Arab refugees “returning” to overwhelm the Jews in a 9-mile wide Israel. Again, this is something the moderate Abbas says he’ll never concede. Recall that more Jewish refugees fled Arab\/Muslim lands (and left far more property and wealth behind) than Arabs who fled in the opposite direction due to fighting Arabs started themselves.<\/p>\n
No more Arab sweet talk in exchange for concrete, Israeli concessions that bare the necks of Jewish kids to those who repeatedly and deliberately target them.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Abbas\u2019s idea of partnership means getting the gift of the ultimate Trojan Horse handed to him: The Jews building up the very folks who will bring about their destruction.<\/p>\n
For Fatah, both Jews and Arabs “partner” just for the Arabs’ advantage and against the Jews’ own interests. Another look at Webster’s definition may be in order…<\/p>\n
Perhaps that’s why it was Olmert obeying Washington by pleading for partnership and not Abbas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Partners\u2026The Ultimate Trojan Horse by Gerald A. Honigman Caroline Glick\u2019s masterpiece, “Grounded In Fantasy,” appeared in the June 18th edition of the Jerusalem Post. It is must reading for all interested in what\u2019s happening in Gaza and beyond these days. … Continue reading