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Emanuel A. Winston , Middle East analyst and commentator, writes extensively about geo-politics and war, often forecasting coming events in the region of the Middle East, including the relations between Washington and Jerusalem.
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By Emanuel A. Winston
May 17, 2007
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When the flagship journals fill their pages with "friendly" recommendations on how to appease Arab Muslims, the diplomatic "hustle" is on again!
Let's start with the op-ed in the New York Times purportedly written by Fuad Siniora, Prime Minister of Lebanon. It has the fingerprints of State Department propagandists doing their job. Siniora tells us that military action does not give the people of Israel security.
This from a fellow who neglected to put Lebanese troops in the South where he promised to keep Hezbollah terrorists away from Israel. He let Hezbollah set up a six square block compound in the middle of Beirut, where they later camped out, campaigning for his overthrow. Then he wept hot helpless tears in the UN Security Council during last summer's war. This is a guy that should be giving the world advice on statesmanship?
Siniora advises Israel that the only way to achieve a comprehensive peace settlement is to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Reams have already been written by objective Middle East experts to the effect that, while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is said to be the reason for Arab uprisings all over the world, there is no truth for this claim.
I wonder if Siniora is prepared to defend his disinformation when Islamists are blowing up the world in places where there are no connections to Israel. There are over 70 terror organizations operating in Iraq, supported, supplied and funded by Iran, Syria, Russia, China and North Korea as weapons suppliers.
Siniora tells us that the 22 members of the Arab League will recognize Israel if she withdraws to the 1949 Armistice cease-fire lines. (Those lines were the vulnerable positions that invited the Arab Muslim aggression leading to the 1967 Six Days War - that Abba Eban called "Auschwitz borders"). Siniora says that recognizing Israel is a "high price" the Arabs are willing to pay.
In the parlance of Middle East code-words, that statement tells us that the most Israel can hope to get is the equivalent of a Mohammed-type "Hudna" (Arabic for temporary cease-fire) which is a false, short-term agreement to be abrogated when the Islamists are strong enough to mount a full offensive. This was the trick, the Hudabaiya Treaty, mentioned by Yassir Arafat when speaking in Arabic, to assure that any short-term cease fire he negotiated with the Israelis would be abrogated -- like the first Oslo Accords.
Siniora blathers on with talk of "peace and security" while supporting the Saudi Plan to flood Israel with three to five million descendants of the original 480,000 "fellaheen" Arab Muslims who fled or were urged to leave the fledgling Jewish State by leaders of the incoming six Arab armies. The Arab leaders said: "Clear the roads so we can eliminate the Zionist Jews and then you can come back to claim your homes and those of the Jews".
Siniora complains of the damage done to Lebanon as a result of the 2006 Lebanon war. Of course, he neglects to mention that Hezb?Allah killed 8 Israeli soldiers and kidnapped 2 whom they still hold. Siniora also neglects to mention that Hezbollah started firing long range Katyusha missiles into Israel without provocation. He made no effort to send in Lebanese troops to stop the missile launchings.
Siniora uses the buzz-words of disinformation such as "injustice, oppression, illegal occupation of Arab lands". He speaks of extremism (meaning terror) as the reluctant Arab response to Israel, ignoring of over 50 years of uninterrupted aggression through war and terror -- all with the intent of eliminating Israel and her people. He forgot the illegal occupation and illegal building by Arabs on Jewish-owned land and Arab Muslim desecration of Jewish holy places whenever the Muslims were in control.
When Arabs under Islam cannot achieve in the short term, the utter conquest of their intended victim, they fall back on screeching and pleading for fairness, understanding and a cessation of their victims' efforts to defend themselves. They generally seek allies among intended future victims. In this case, it would be America, Europe and Russia to whom the Islamists appeal for support, planning that one day soon, through infiltration, nuclear threats or simply outbreeding their adversaries, they will dominate the world by Islam with a global Muslim Caliphate. They don?t hide their goals; they proclaim them loudly and often. Why don't we listen? They say what they mean and they mean what they say!
Siniora tells us that the Arabs like the Israelis have security concerns. What he fails to mention is that well-documented history plainly states that it's those "peaceful" Arabs who plan, arm and restart the conflicts. When Israel responds in self-defense, the Muslim Arabs put their propaganda machine in high gear, bleating about how unfair it is for Israel to respond.
Israel gave up Gush Katif in Gaza and now receives daily launchings of Kassam Rockets. Israel under Ehud Barak foolishly left the security buffer zone in Lebanon and Hezbollah moved in and established firing bases with the benign neglect of Siniora and the Lebanese Army. After the War, Hezbollah was re-stocked by Iran through Syria and now has 20,000 Missiles ready to assault Israel -- again.
Siniora bleats about International Law -- as if any Arab/Muslim/Islamic nation considered International Law binding on Muslims. The impotent and weepy Siniora himself ignored UN resolutions that applied to him and his obligations to prevents militias firing on a neighboring state.
Babbling about a "just and lasting peace" is merely the cover with which weak and fearful leaders like Siniora try to seduce the world at large or Israeli Leftists who live in an illusory world where hopeful words and declared intentions are treated like solid things rather than deceptive devices for taking in the gullible.
It's a shame that the State Department appears complicit in this indecent sham to hustle Israel.
No wonder it's called Foggy Bottom.
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