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Let's talk briefly about these two wacky ideas.· Engage Iran and Syria in resolving the Iraq conflict; · Fast-track the creation of a Palestinian state by carving up tiny Israel.
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Capitulation to terrorism
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- Автор: Joseph Farah
Posted: December 8, 2006
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The Iraq Study Group report is in – and it holds no surprises.
What should we expect from a group chaired by James Baker, a legal
pimp for Saudi Arabia and the man who single-handedly reversed America's
pro-freedom policies in the Middle East during his tenure as secretary
of state under the president's father?
There have been many great words spoken throughout history – none by
Baker.
In fact, the words he is most famous for speaking relate to questions
about his reshaping of Middle East policy in the early 1990s. It was Baker
who called for a more "even-handed" approach to the region.
By even-handed, he meant the U.S. should stop backing Israel out of
moral imperative and treat the only free state in the Middle East as a
moral equal with the totalitarian, anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian,
racist, terrorist police states that surround it.
When asked how such a policy might go over with Jewish voters in the
U.S., Baker showed off his touted diplomatic skills with his most famous
quote: "They don't vote for us anyway, so f--- 'em." Only he didn't leave
out those three letters following the "f."
That's really all you need to know about Baker – the Council on Foreign
Relations hack who should be prohibited from having any influence on American
foreign policy because of his own conflicts of interests involving the
fun-loving Saudis.
The "Baker Commission," as it should rightfully be called, came up
with two major recommendations as far as I can see:
One shouldn't have to point out at this late date that Syria and Iran
represent the principal problem in the region, not the solution. But, for
moral relativists like Baker and others with less impure motives who just
don't understand the Middle East, I guess it is necessary to restate the
obvious.
The terrorists we fight in Iraq today wouldn't last a week without
the direct support and encouragement of the mullah government in Iran and
the police state of Bashar Assad in Syria. One of George Bush's biggest
mistakes as president has been to ignore this reality and to play patty-cake
with the terrorist enemy.
Either it's a war or it's not a war. Either the terrorists are our
enemies or they're not. Either we destroy them or they destroy us. Bush
hasn't seen it this way. He really thought major hostilities would end
when the U.S. and its allies defeated Saddam Hussein's army on the battlefield.
He should have known that was the easy part. And, if he didn't recognize
it in advance, he's had plenty of time to figure it out since.
Again, this should be obvious, but Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
Its president has publicly called for the destruction of not just the state
of Israel but America, too. He means what he says. This is the same Ahmadinejad
who was active in the holding of American hostages in the U.S. Embassy
in 1979 and 1980.
Iran is not going to change its stripes. Neither is Syria. And we are
encouraging these terrorist-supporting nations to keep doing exactly what
they are doing when there is even a suggestion in the U.S. that we "engage"
them to settle the matter in Iraq.
It's so absurd, it's really not even something intelligent, rationale
Americans should discuss, let alone consider.
Then there's the matter of Palestine. Here the recommendations of the
Baker Commission are even more absurd, more preposterous.
The Iraq Study Group suggests Israel should pay the price for America's
failed efforts in Iraq by returning the Golan Heights to Syria and conceding
that millions of refugees, most of whom have never lived in Israel or "Palestine,"
have "the right of return."
Again, for those short on history, Israel captured the Golan Heights
from Syria in 1967 in hard-fought combat. Most of those who live in the
Golan Heights, the Druze, are very happy under Israeli control. Possession
of the Golan Heights offers Israel some protection from future Syrian artillery
bombardment and armored invasions.
But without any concessions from a Syrian government still officially
at war with Israel, Jerusalem is supposed to turn over to a terrorist police
state this strategic real estate and the inhabitants who now live freely
under Israeli protection.
Likewise, even while Israel is being attacked daily by Palestinian
terrorists from lands it already turned over to them, the Jewish state
is supposed to welcome millions more into the Palestinian Authority and
presumably Israel as well.
Let's just say such a decision would make the Holocaust look like a
bar mitzvah party by comparison.
Who do we have to thank for all of this? It's tempting to blame James
Baker. But, to be honest, George W. Bush brought all this on himself with
his misconduct of the war in Iraq and his own irrational policies on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Has it occurred to anyone that even linking Iraq with Palestine makes
no sense whatsoever?
Does anyone truly believe that the establishment of a Palestinian state
would persuade Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons?
Does anyone truly believe that the establishment of a Palestinian state
would persuade Syria to cease its support of international terrorists?
Does anyone truly believe that the establishment of a Palestinian state
would persuade Iran and Syria to stop promoting the toppling of the elected
government of Iraq?
Does anyone truly believe that the establishment of a Palestinian state
would persuade Hezbollah, supported by both Iran and Syria, to stop its
own insurgency in Lebanon?
It's difficult for me even to ask such ridiculous rhetorical questions.
But I do so to illustrate just how evil is this document produced by the
Baker Commission.
But, again, what should we expect from James Baker? This lying, deceiving
report reflects the evil genius of the man behind it.
The terrorists in the Middle East understand this report for what it
is – victory for them. Will Americans recognize it in time?
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Haim Goldman
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-- Professor Victor Davis Hanson (Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University),
-- Dr Charles Krauthammer, (Washington Post, Time, The Weekly Standard),
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One of MAOF’s primary purposes is providing information and analysis about Middle-Eastern and world affairs as well as about Israel’s history, values and dilemmas. In addition to extensive publication activity in various media, MAOF also organises excursions and seminars. While the vast majority of the contents of the MAOF website is in Russian, texts originally written in English are provided in the original [2] as well as in Russian.
There are arguably about 250 millions of Russian-speakers worldwide and many of them do not read English. The indisputable motivation for the author’s permission was to grant those millions of disadvantaged people the grand benefit of reading the author’s ruminations. If the author is ever maliciously accused that his tacit motivation for authorising the publication was his craving to be listed along with the above-mentioned distinguished writers, his plea will definitely be “nolo contendere”.
The editors of MAOF expressed their gratitude by granting the undersigned a privilege that no other author got – the opportunity to review and correct the Russian translation before publication. The original letters of the undersigned are at [3] and their Russian version is at [4]. At of today, only two letters are posted but several other letters are pending translation.
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28.10.2006
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