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Source: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13414157
Nudging Israel for Peace
[Denver Post] David Harsanyi - The U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists - but we insist Israel do so without preconditions. We will remove missile defense systems in Eastern Europe so we do not needlessly provoke our good friends in Russia - but we have no compunction nudging Israel to hand over territory with nothing in return. The last time Israel withdrew from disputed lands without pre-conditions to allow the potential of the Palestinian people to shine through was in Gaza. The Arabs, hungering for the light of freedom, used the gift to elect Hamas - now an Iranian proxy and always a terror organization - to rain rockets down on the civilians that voted to allow the first democratic Arab entity in history. If the president really anticipates a Palestinian state will be "contiguous territory," what he expects is that Israel can't be contiguous. And when he uses the word "occupation," he is negotiating for the Palestinians. None of the lands up for discussion are "occupied" territory. There has never, in history, been a Palestinian state to occupy. Why would the U.S. support an arrangement that scrubs the West Bank of all its Jews? Why is it so unconscionable to imagine that Jews could live among Muslims in the same way millions of Arabs live within Israel proper? Of course, we all know the answer to this question: Jews would be slaughtered, bombed from their homes, rocketed from their schools. This indisputable fact reveals the fundamental reality of these negotiations.