The Baker Panel May Have Recommended The Annihilation Of Israel

We have a paper due and t we have to supervise an exam, so don’t be expecting much in the way of reasoned analysis today (more just incoherent venting). That said, can this possibly be true:

A reference to Palestinians’ “right of return” in the report issued by the high-level Iraq Study Group broke a diplomatic taboo which sparked immediate concern in Israel and surprise among Middle East policy experts. The reference was buried deep inside a 160-page report that urged US President George W. Bush to renew efforts to revive Israel-Palestinian peace talks as part of a region-wide bid to end the chaos in Iraq. “This report is worrisome for Israel particularly because, for the first time, it mentions the question of the ‘right of return’ for the Palestinian refugees of 1948,” said a senior Israeli official, who was reacting to the US policy report on condition he not be identified.

None of the Israeli papers picked up on this as far as we know, and we didn’t hear about it until this morning. If it’s true, then it brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “intentionally trying to screw Israel”. We’re not going to explain – yet again – why even the premise of the right of return is a complete travesty in every sense of the word. Suffice to say that the right of return means the end of Israel as a Jewish state. If the Baker Panel genuinely endorsed it, then obviously the panel is recommending that the President adopt a foreign policy of actively undermining Israel’s national security. We’re not looking to exaggerate, but let’s not mince words either: endorsing a policy that recommends that three million of the most rabidly anti-Semitic people on the planet flood into Israel is literally endorsing an invasion of Israel by its enemies.

Previously: Times UK Celebrates Saudi Peace Initiative – Now Without Peeking, Do You Think It’s Good Or Bad For Israel?, Ahmadinejad Still Threatening To Nuke Israel, UN Still Not Caring, http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11272970.html

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