Thursday, November 01, 2007

Phillips snubs peace conference

The Lethal Illusion -Melanie Phillips

The U.S. persists in its dangerous pretense that it can bring about a resolution of the Israel/Arab dispute at Annapolis by insisting on treating Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah as credible interlocutors for peace.

This is a war to exterminate the Jewish state, being waged by Arabs with differing strategies on the same continuum of annihilation - and with not one single credible interlocutor on their side who genuinely wants to live in peace with Israel.

The Western refusal to acknowledge this inconvenient truth gives this conflict its surreal dimension, in which a country that has been under exterminatory attack for the past six decades is expected to make reparations to its assailants and reward them with a state of their own even while they continue with their war against it; to provide food, power and other supplies to its attackers in Gaza in order that they can continue their murderous assault upon it; and to treat a leader who refuses to stop the war as an apostle of peace simply because no one can think of a better idea.
(Spectator-UK)


The Annapolis Meeting: Not at Any Price -Yoel Marcus

Olmert must go to Annapolis as Mr. Peace, but play Mr. Security when he gets there. Annapolis is good, but not at any price.
(Ha'aretz)

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