PrintSeptember 3, 2010
The Siren Song of Arab Rejectionism
Another round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians began yesterday at the White House. Present were the two Arab leaders and autocrats who are putatively at peace with Israel, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's kinglet, Abdullah. But, as we shall no doubt see, they will exert their Arab bona fides within the Arab-Muslim world by displaying how hard they can lean on the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. Not to do so invites threats from the hostile Arab and Muslim street.Despite promises by both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that there will be no preconditions imposed at the talks, Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has already made it abundantly clear that he will most certainly demand preconditions and bolt from the peace conference if they are not met. Blackmail?What he insists on is a permanent freeze on building homes within Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank). On September 26, 2010, the self-imposed Israeli...(Read Full Article)
