And there we have it: The preconditions are back. Actually, they never left. Mahmoud Abbas says he will exit peace talks if Israel resumes “settlement” building, even on the parts of land that Abbas has already said he will swap with Israel. The point, of course, is that the Palestinians do not want the peace talks to succeed. Because their international gravy train would end once Israel is no longer the enemy that is oppressing their drive for statehood. The funds have already dried up, due to the worldwide recession and the fact that the Arabs have always reneged on their agreements to support the Palestinians financially.
Oh, look, another precondition: Abbas apparently wants to base the peace talks on the Quartet’s March declaration, which was not in any way agreed to by Israel. Color me unsurprised.
Oh, look—the State Department found incitement it can condemn: Funny how the State Dept. can’t ever seem to condemn the many, many instances of Jew-hatred and eliminationist rhetoric about Israel from the Palestinians, but let one rabbi in Israel utter nasty comments about the Palestinians, why, that’s something the State Dept. can condemn as “incitement”—because those Israeli terror attacks against Palestinians are so very, very numerous. We really have to worry about inciting the Israelis against the Palestinians. Why, the next thing you know, Israelis will be naming streets after Baruch Goldstein, or something. It’s been what, 16 years since his attack? Any day now. It’s not at all like the good, honorable Mahmoud Abbas, who recently attended the funeral of one of the masterminds of the Munich Olympics terror attack.
Weapons caches in the Sinai, yawns in the world media: The smuggling continues, as the world pretends that there is no need to blockade Gaza. Nope. Nothing at all. Weapons smuggling? Lies the Israelis made up to imprison the Gazans in “the world’s largest prison camp.” Anti-aircraft missiles? Well, Israel has helicopters and jets, so that’s just the Palestinians going for self-defense, right? Shyeah.
Let’s you and him fight: The JPost reports that Syria and Hezbollah have agreed to attack Israel together. Yeah, the Dorktator is all about openly attacking Israel with weapons… I’m calling BS on this one—unless the Iranians get the bomb, in which case all hell breaks loose.