Israel is being raped
By Ted Belman
February 5, 2005 This article originally appeared in IsraPundit (www.israpundit.com)
It is clear that the US is in the process of raping Israel. Israel can either scream and resist or lie back and accept it.
Israel has obviously decided on the later response rather than to resist the demands being made of it. In part because even if Israel were united in its opposition to the demands being made of it there is little it could do to resist. Sharon has obviously decided that more will be obtained from cooperation then from resistance.
John Loftus tells the story that when Israel approached Rockefeller before the UN vote on Partition to get South America to abstain in the vote, he said you can have your state or you can have your revenge against the Nazis in S. America but you can't have both. Ben Gurion opted for the state.
Today, Israel is being told you can have your peace agreement with the Arab world or you can have your "land grab" but you can't have both. In turn the Palestinians are being told that they can have their viable state or can pursue violence in the service of their goal of destroying Israel but they can't have both.
Accordingly Israel is expected to;
1. abandon all settlements east of the fence including Ariel, a community of some 20,000,
2. abandon all claims to the Jordan rift so that the future Palestine will be contiguous with Jordan
3. abandon the Golan so that Syria will enter a peace agreement with Israel and so that the future Palestine will be contiguous with Syria
4. abandon Gaza and the Philadelfi Corridor so that the future Palestine will be contiguous with Egypt.
5. abandon East Jerusalem so that it can be part of the future Palestine.
Whatever happened to "secure and recognized borders"?
I do not believe that Israel can resist this outrage particularly because it is so divided with respect to same.
All this flows from the decision of the US to support a two state solution. It would have been a more practical solution to not create Palestine but to focus efforts on Jordan annexing parts of West Bank and Egypt annexing Gaza. That would have been far more rational. But the US figured that what is important is to secure the support of the Arab world to the solution no matter how problematic rather then to seek the best solution.
The US is clearly serious about bringing Syria around and destroying Hezbollah. It is also taking on Iran in no uncertain terms. Bush was very clear on this in his State of the Union Address.
The Palestinian train has left the station. Nothing can stop it. It will proceed to its destination regardless of resistance and terror just as the democracy train has left the station in Iraq amid continuing violence. The US believes that as the trains get closer to their respective destinations that they will roll over the terrorists.
Opinions exist as to whether the US will succeed in getting either train to its destination. I for one believe that it will.
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