By Ted Belman
The US chose to fight Israel’s declaration that the Golan will remain in Israel forever by saying that it will be on the table in peace negotiations with Syria. Dr Gabi Avital, in his article, Israel and Golan Heights are inseparable, points out that this was a big mistake particularly when the Golan represents only 6/10 of one percent of Syria’s land mass, at least before it had been rent asunder. Israel can live without a peace agreement with Syria but she can’t live without the Golan. Peace for peace is all she will offer.
Why would both the US and Russia stir this pot up again?
Elliot Abrams, in his article, Biden’s untimely assault on Israel, made mincemeat out of VP Biden,
As reported in the Times of Israel: “Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged ‘overwhelming frustration’ with Israel’s government on Monday and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration has led the country in the wrong direction, in an unusually sharp rebuke of America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
“‘I firmly believe that the actions that Israel’s government has taken over the past the past several years — the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures — they’re moving us and more importantly they’re moving Israel in the wrong direction,’ Biden said.
“He said those policies were moving Israel toward a ‘one-state reality’ — meaning a single state for Palestinians and Israelis in which eventually, Israeli Jews will no longer be the majority.
“‘That reality is dangerous,’ Biden added.”
Put aside the exquisite timing of Biden’s remarks on a day when Israel suffered a terrorist attack, and they are still quite something. For one thing, President Barack Obama is about to join a GCC summit in Saudi Arabia. Does Biden really think the Arabs pay no attention to how we treat our closest friends and allies? Does he not know that they will read all of this and not gloat — but instead wonder when they will be getting the same treatment?
Then there are the facts. How do you get to a “one-state reality” when the people and government of Israel refuse it? Who will force them into it? How do you get to “systematic” expansion of settlements when just about every analyst understands that Netanyahu has been constraining many aspects of settlement growth — to the great anger of the settlers? And finally, why is Biden not familiar with the history of his own administration’s peace efforts? As Dennis Ross made clear in his most recent book, “Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama,” Netanyahu was in fact ready to take significant political risks to meet American requests — and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was not.
As Martin Indyk put it in July 2014, “Netanyahu moved to the zone of possible agreement. I saw him sweating bullets to find a way to reach an agreement.” Abbas, for his part, did not show flexibility, Indyk added.
None of this was reflected in Biden’s remarks.
In his book, Ross wrote, “Obama believed Israel was capable of doing more on peace. And it could help change the regional realities, and our place in the region, if it would only move on the Palestinians. But what if the Palestinians were not prepared to move? What if they were not capable of moving, regardless of Israeli actions? He never seemed to ask that question.”
Neither did Biden.
The war of the West against Israel started the day the UNWRA was created, funded and supported until today by the West.
For 68 years the West has seen their hope of Israel destruction denied time after time. The West continues obsessively to ask IL to commit suicide in exchange for the 58th genocidally fanatical Islamic state. This is the expression of the deep western antisemitism prevailing today. The West failed in the first holocaust and they wish that the Muslims succeed where they failed.