Ungrateful Bastards
They can just do this now?
The Palestinians yesterday rejected an Israeli offer to release 900 prisoners as a gesture to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, calling the proposal "insulting."
What's insulting is that the Palestinians think that they can start a war, murder Israeli civilians for half a decade, humiliatingly lose, and still set terms for peace. What's even more insulting is that Europe and the United States are helping them:
The crisis over the prisoner releases was largely predictable, since this is an ideal time for the Palestinians to demand additional Israeli concessions: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives Sunday, and a four-way summit between Sharon, Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah of Jordan is scheduled for Tuesday. Both Rice and the summit participants are expected to press Israel on its gestures.
Caroline Glick is just brutal on this question this morning:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave form to the Palestinian state... "The Israelis," she said, "were going to have to recognize that there was going to have to be land for - contiguous land for the Palestinian state to exist on." Contiguous land? Well, how can there be contiguity between the West Bank on the east and the Gaza Strip on the west unless Israel is split in two?... And now we know where America stands on the issue... Since the so-called road map is the only plan in town, we already know that America has joined Europe, the UN, and radical left wing Israelis
In fact, go read the whole Glick article.
The Palestinians yesterday rejected an Israeli offer to release 900 prisoners as a gesture to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, calling the proposal "insulting."
What's insulting is that the Palestinians think that they can start a war, murder Israeli civilians for half a decade, humiliatingly lose, and still set terms for peace. What's even more insulting is that Europe and the United States are helping them:
The crisis over the prisoner releases was largely predictable, since this is an ideal time for the Palestinians to demand additional Israeli concessions: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives Sunday, and a four-way summit between Sharon, Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah of Jordan is scheduled for Tuesday. Both Rice and the summit participants are expected to press Israel on its gestures.
Caroline Glick is just brutal on this question this morning:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave form to the Palestinian state... "The Israelis," she said, "were going to have to recognize that there was going to have to be land for - contiguous land for the Palestinian state to exist on." Contiguous land? Well, how can there be contiguity between the West Bank on the east and the Gaza Strip on the west unless Israel is split in two?... And now we know where America stands on the issue... Since the so-called road map is the only plan in town, we already know that America has joined Europe, the UN, and radical left wing Israelis
In fact, go read the whole Glick article.
