The magical thing about pro-Israel blogging is that its abjectly depressing content is totally unredeemed by even the slightest hint of new or interesting anti-Israel outrages. I take a blissful month away from blogging only to return to this disgusting decade-old proposal and this incredibly predictable screwjob:

Lebanese officials reported of a significant turnaround in the United State's position regarding the Shebaa Farms and said that the Bush administration is now in favor of Israel's withdrawal from the eight square mile disputed area in the Golan Heights in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 170... Sources in Lebanon were quoted by Al-Hayat as saying that Israel's possible withdrawal from the Shebaa Farms area, which was captured by Israel from Syria during the Six Day War in 1967, was one of the focal points during the recent meetings US President George W. Bush held with German, Italian, British and French leaders while touring Europe.

Incredibly. Predictable. Screwjob:

As part of the Lebanon-II withdrawal, the US promised that it would never pressure Israel to withdraw from Har Dov, the so-called Shebaa Farms region that Israel took from Syria in 1967, based on Hezbollah's absurd claims that it was Lebanese land. At the time we wrote that we'd need that post in the future because the international community routinely pulls this kind of moving the goalposts bait and switch on Israel... Here's Alberto Fernandez (Director of Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department) - a guy whose job it is to win Arab hearts and minds - responding to Arab-Americans trying to get him to endorse Hezbollah's absurd position: "Oh come on, the 'Lebanese Resistance', if I may use that term sarcastically, didn't know the Shebaa Farms was occupied until the Syrians told them so. That is just ridiculous." First the UN walked over every inch of the Lebanese border and certified that Israel had fully withdrawn. Hezbollah simply ignored that decision.

The most basic land-for-peace fantasy is that Arabs murder Israelis because of territorial disputes. Once Israel meets Hezbollah's "legitimate claims" - Obama's lovely phrase - intransigent and genocidal Arab anti-Semitism is supposed to subside. Land-for-peace skeptics - on the other hand - have always claimed that Israel's Arab enemies will just pocket Israel concessions and use them as platforms for even more insane demands.

Israel gambles on some diplomatic agreement or assurance in the context of a land-for-peace swap. Its concessions are met with unblinking hysterical fantasizing and unremitting genocidal hatred. The diplomatic community inevitably insists that Israel give in to just one more insane claim on its territory. It's the same bait and switch over and over again.

References:
* Vicious Child Murderer Samir Kuntar To Be Traded Next Week? [MR]
* Report: US backs Israeli withdrawal from Shebaa Farms [YNet]
* The UN Makes It Official: There Is Absolutely No Agreement That Won't Be Changed If Israel's Genocidal Enemies Refuse To Accept For Long Enough [MR]
* Oh, THOSE Legitimate Claims [Power Line]
* Annapolis As A Rosetta Stone For How Anti-Israel Bait And Switch Diplomacy Works [MR]

Previously:
* Are They Really that Stupid?
* Smug Condescending Sophisticates Admit They've Been Lying Through Their Teeth About Israeli Security I - UN Admits Hezbollah Is Rearming
* One Jerusalem Conference Call: Ambassador Dore Gold On How Current Limited Negotiations Are A Slippery Slope To Losing Jerusalem