World Lectures Israel on How To Achieve Israeli Security
It seems like everyone in the world suddenly thinks that Israel should be handing out more land on the 1 in a billion chance that it will distract a single Palestinian terrorist or Hezbollah proxy-soldier. Everyone, that is, except many Israelis - who kind of like what little amount of land they've still managed to keep.
With the Palestinians... So you're Spain. Other than being the WWII bad guy that everyone always forgets, your biggest claim to recent fame is being the boss on the Iberian Peninsula (not that Andorra was putting up much of a fight). So rather than being satisfied and resting on their laurels, the Spanish are suggesting that Israel should revive the utter failure that was the 1990s Israeli-Palestinian land-for-peace. How dumb is this argument? Not even Labor chief Amir Peretz thinks that's a bad idea - and he's so committed to his commitment to insane peace deals that he was talking about them during an election where Labor needed to go right. Shilo Musings is genuinely impressed. Why is it that whenever any decadent European wannabee wants to do something "relevant", pressuring Israel to endanger Israelis always seems to be near the top of the list? And incidentally, the fact that Labor is still expressing some semblance of normalcy makes the Meretz proposal for a Meretz-Labor merger that much funnier. Because nothing screams "we're trying to reestablish our credibility after our idiot primary voters elected an idiot teamster and then he lost a war" more than merging with a party to the left of you.
With the Syrians... People who think that Israel should negotiate with Syria: YNet's Sever Plocker, who's brain will allow him to publicly argue that the Golan Heights is different from the West Bank because, unlike the West Bank, the world is opposed to Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights (?!?!) People who think that Papa Assad blew Syria's golden opportunity and that if Baby Assad wants to come to the Golan he can damn well apply for an Israeli tourist visa like everyone else: Israeli Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres (or as the IHT describes it: "Israel vice premier says Israel open to peace talks if Syrians offer realistic proposals"... because that's the perfect way to sum up the main point of a speech dedicated to explaining that Assad will never, ever, ever make a realisic proposal).
With the Palestinians... So you're Spain. Other than being the WWII bad guy that everyone always forgets, your biggest claim to recent fame is being the boss on the Iberian Peninsula (not that Andorra was putting up much of a fight). So rather than being satisfied and resting on their laurels, the Spanish are suggesting that Israel should revive the utter failure that was the 1990s Israeli-Palestinian land-for-peace. How dumb is this argument? Not even Labor chief Amir Peretz thinks that's a bad idea - and he's so committed to his commitment to insane peace deals that he was talking about them during an election where Labor needed to go right. Shilo Musings is genuinely impressed. Why is it that whenever any decadent European wannabee wants to do something "relevant", pressuring Israel to endanger Israelis always seems to be near the top of the list? And incidentally, the fact that Labor is still expressing some semblance of normalcy makes the Meretz proposal for a Meretz-Labor merger that much funnier. Because nothing screams "we're trying to reestablish our credibility after our idiot primary voters elected an idiot teamster and then he lost a war" more than merging with a party to the left of you.
With the Syrians... People who think that Israel should negotiate with Syria: YNet's Sever Plocker, who's brain will allow him to publicly argue that the Golan Heights is different from the West Bank because, unlike the West Bank, the world is opposed to Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights (?!?!) People who think that Papa Assad blew Syria's golden opportunity and that if Baby Assad wants to come to the Golan he can damn well apply for an Israeli tourist visa like everyone else: Israeli Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres (or as the IHT describes it: "Israel vice premier says Israel open to peace talks if Syrians offer realistic proposals"... because that's the perfect way to sum up the main point of a speech dedicated to explaining that Assad will never, ever, ever make a realisic proposal).
