"The situation today, however, is transformed in every sense. The Soviet Union is dead. Iraq and Syria have been sidelined as foes. The Arab world is in upheaval, which produces great uncertainty but has also weakened every Arab country. They all are focused on internal issues of power, legitimacy and survival. The last thing any of them can afford is a confrontation with the country that has become the region’s dominant power."
Yeah, right. The mullahs in Tehran are calling for the annihilation of Israel almost every day, and Israel shouldn't be the least bit concerned, when Obama acknowledges that the Iran is a mere one year away from a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, Hezbollah, Iran's surrogate in Lebanon, is pointing some 60,000 rockets and missiles at Israel and repeatedly warning of an imminent war, and the fate of Syria's enormous chemical weapons arsenal is hanging in the balance. Yup, no need for the least bit of concern on the part of Jerusalem.
Zakaria continues:
"Israel’s highly effective counterterrorism methods, including the wall separating Palestinians and Israelis and the 'iron dome,' which increasingly shields Israelis from missiles, have largely made Palestinian terrorism something that is worried about and planned against but not actually experienced by most Israelis."
Well, first let's get our facts straight: The separation barrier between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is 90% fence and only 10% wall, and where it is "wall," it is primarily intended to prevent Palestinians from shooting from built-up areas at neighboring Israeli towns and cities and vehicles passing along Israel's Highway 6.
Palestinian terror a thing of the past? More than 12,000 rockets and missiles have been fired at Israel from Gaza since 2002. True, Iron Dome did a spectacular job of intercepting missiles during the most recent conflagration with Gaza, i.e. Operation Pillar of Defense, but there are thousands more rockets and missiles waiting to be fired from Gaza, and Iron Dome is still not 100% reliable. I suggest that Zakaria put his thesis to the test and write over the next year from the southern Israeli town of Sderot, where a rocket fell during Obama's recent visit to Israel.
Next, Zakaria, a plagiarizer, tosses out a flagrant lie:
"After all, Israel has ruled millions of Palestinians without offering them citizenship or a state for 40 years."
Of course, as well known to Zakaria, Israeli prime ministers Barak and Olmert offered Arafat and Abbas an independent state along the 1967 lines with agreed upon land swaps, and Olmert even offered Palestinian control of east Jerusalem. Arafat and Abbas refused.
Zakaria concludes:
"Having tried pressure, threats and tough talk, Obama has settled on a new strategy: appealing to Israel as a liberal democracy and to its people’s sense of conscience and character. In the long run, this is the most likely path to peace and a Palestinian state."
So now a plagiarizer and liar is lecturing Israelis about "conscience." A majority of Israelis favor a two-state solution; however, they are also painfully aware that the Hamas charter calls for the murder of all Jews, not just Israelis. Over the past decade, Israelis have had more than their fill of suicide bombings. After Prime Minister Sharon unilaterally evacuated Gaza, they witnessed almost daily rocket attacks against their southern towns and cities. And Israelis have watched Arafat and Abbas reject peace with land swaps, which would have instantly provided Palestinians with statehood.
Get stuffed, Fareed.
So, let me check if I understand it correctly.
ReplyDeleteZakaria, the plagiarizer, is kept at the Washington Post and elsewhere for a simple reason - he is an antisemite and because of this fact I should admire the Washington Post.
Let me think.
I feel that I am totally confused. Just yesterday, I watched an old episode of "Law and order" in which a young Black journalist with a promising career and a job at a prestigious paper is a plagiarizer and his father kills someone to prevent this simple fact from becoming public and ruining his son's career. The film's detectives do a wonderful job and son's career is ruined and his father goes to jail.
What a difference between fiction and reality.
Bravo the best American journalism, bravo.