@CapitalCloak: Israel should return to pre 1967 war border lines when the US returns to its pre-Spanish-American & Mexican-American war border lines. Shared via TweetCaster
As absurd as it may sound, yesterday President Obama urged Israel to give up land it won in the 1967 war from the host of nations and peoples who jointly attempted to wipe Israel from the map. Never before in American history has a President given a speech containing more historical ignorance and word choice so blatantly designed to appease radical Middle Eastern anti-Semite regimes. The President who thumped his chest in pride over making the "tough" decision to raid Bin Laden's compound a few weeks ago, has now embraced violating America's long-standing policy not to negotiate with terrorists.
The lead Palestinian organization, Hamas, is an avowed terrorist group, whose self-proclaimed mission is the destruction of Israel. Yet, through his speech yesterday, President Obama has sided with Hamas against Israel by in effect demanding that Israel give the Hamas terrorists (and Fatah, and Hizbollah, and al Qaeda, etc) the land they've been suicide bombing Israel to cede for decades. Giving terrorists what they want, after terrorists have been terrorizing Israel through suicide bombings and rocket attacks into civilian neighborhoods for so long, is worse than negotiating with terrorists. It is surrendering to them. In a few short weeks, President Obama has squandered the deterrent factor from a great victory over a terror mastermind, and is now jumping into bed with the terror mastermind's Palestinian cohorts.
The U.S. has no record of giving our occupied territory back to nations we defeat in wars. The Western U.S. was added after the Mexican-American War. Wars with Native American Indians transferred more occupied land to the U.S. Government. The Spanish-American War added territories and island protectorates to U.S. territory. An American president demanding that tiny Israel, surrounded by hostile nations that want to see it eradicated, give fairly seized land back to the nations that attacked it in 1967 is more than a little ironic. Has President Obama forgotten that Israel did not invade its neighbors in 1967? Israel was the victim. Israel pushed invading nations back behind their own borders and then maintained possession of the strategic border areas to be in better position to defend itself from future unprovoked invasions.
Terrorists will be emboldened by President Obama's mention of Israel's 1967 borders as a basis for a two-state solution with Palestinians. The idea that the U.S. supports the notion of Israel being forced to cede lands it acquired during a war of self-preservation, will encourage Hamas and like-minded terror organizations to strike Israel with impunity, especially in these controversial border areas. President Obama has invited attack on Israel, and Prime Minister Netanyahu rightly rejected Obama's short-sighted terrorist appeasement plan as "indefensible."
President Obama and Neville Chamberlain, separated by nearly 80 years, faced historic encounters with and stared down radical leaders and nations bent on annihilation of the Jews. Both men blinked. Both men appeased. Both men suffered from delusions that appeasement brings peace in our time, or in any epoch of time.
