Dialogue and accommodation with messianic, apocalyptic Islamic regimes like Iran is not only pointless, but threatens the stability of the international order. Even as the UN's nuclear watchdog agency and Israeli intelligence have acknowledged that the Iranian mullahs are on the nuclear threshold and have perfected long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the Obama [...]
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In November 2009, Shin Bet issued a Report describing how Hamas has begun instituting Islamic law and thought in all areas of Gaza life since its violent takeover of the area in June 2007. On August 26th, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad issued a 54-page plan that proposed the establishment of a de-facto Palestinian state within two years. Benjamin Netanyahu's June 14th speech was historic, if only because it set aside rhetoric in favor of political realities. Time and again, a two-state solution has been proposed and time and again, the Arabs have rejected it. Changing the emphasis from the bottom-up, performance-based terms of the Roadmap to the top-down Annapolis process brings to the fore the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Any bargain struck with Iran will not only enhance Iran's status and the status of its Middle East proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, but will detrimentally affect Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, our interests in the Persian Gulf and American hegemony throughout the region and beyond. There is little doubt that the Gaza campaign provided a pretext to unleash deep-seated anti-Semitism in Britain and across Europe. George Mitchell is about to discover that you cannot make peace with those who seek your destruction. So long as Gazans are idle and remain on the international dole, Gazan teenagers will have no future other than war. No one seeking a decisive victory in World War II spoke of a "ceasefire" or "accommodation" with Japan or Germany as we do today with Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran. Rather than protect non-combatants, post-modern terrorists have incorporated them into their tactical war strategy, and in the case of jihadists like Hamas, these "civilians" willingly sacrifice themselves to become shahids or "martyrs" for Allah. It is only a matter of time before Hamas and its Palestinian sympathizers are called to account for the death and destruction wrought by thousands of missiles they have fired into Israeli cities, towns and kibbutzim over the past three years. The ISI's long-term strategy is not simply to provide sanctuary and aid to the enemies of India and the West, but to seize power throughout South and Central Asia by sponsorship of jihadist proxies. The American response to the Russian invasion of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was all rhetoric in large measure because the U.S. was already over-extended in Iraq and Afghanistan and had neither the power, the strategic necessity nor the political capital to take on the Russians over Georgia – and the Russians knew it. |
 
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