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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: November 23, 2007 |
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Veteran columnist and political analyst Shmuel Katz, co-founded of the Herut Party with Menachem Begin, provided a dire scenario of what waits in store for Israel in Annapolis and after. The piece begins:"
"The Jewish state is in greater danger than anytime since the 1948 War of Independence. The danger stems not from current Arab violence, nor the threat of future violence. It lies in the convocation of the Annapolis conference conceived and promoted with almost frenetic enthusiasm by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."
The view deteriorates from there....
Katz is old enough to personally remember "Munich" in 1938 and the betrayal of Czechoslovakia by the United Kingdom and its allies, which allowed the Germans to dismember it without opposition:
Israel was handed the Road Map in the same way, weirdly enough, as the Munich Pact was handed to the betrayed Czechs in 1938, by its authors Britain, France, Germany and Italy. When a shocked prime minister Ariel Sharon ventured to say that there were [imposed by the Netanyahu-led opposition] 14 amendments (which he presumably felt could make the repugnant diktat acceptable to Israel), he was told tersely and without qualification by US secretary of state Colin Powell that no amendments would be considered (exactly what the Czechs were told in 1938). Sharon kept on trying."
Katz concludes with a glimmer of hope that maybe the Israeli leadership will awake in time to confront the approaching danger.
Thus Israel has reached an unprecedented nadir in the dispute with the Palestinian Arabs. An examination of each step down into the depths proves how every Israeli government has failed to assert itself in confronting the deadly Arab purpose. There is only one way to stop the descent. Israel must effect a complete reversal of policy.
"Interestingly enough, Tzipi Livni, in the course of a recent lecture published in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, unwittingly laid down two vital truths on which Israel must base its policy.... she says: 'Absolutely the last thing that Israel can afford and the last thing the world needs is the establishment of another terror state in the Middle East.'"
"Absolutely, indeed; and as neither she nor Olmert -- nor, if you were to press them, Rice and President George W. Bush himself -- can provide a smidgen of evidence to suggest that a Palestinian state will not be a terror state, the last thing that Israel can afford and the last thing the world needs is a conference to establish a Palestinian state."
Read the Full Op-Ed:
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The Looming Danger of Annapolis
- (Jerusalem Post)
11.22.2007
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