Saturday, September 17, 2011

Pursuit of Peace?

In the creation of the "State of Palestine", are the member states of the United Nations interested in advancing the cause of peace? I would contend, not in the slightest and any argument to the contrary is cynical manipulation. Members of the world body are well aware that the Palestinian Authority has enjoyed a rapprochement with the Hamas terror organization that controls Gaza. Hamas was created with the express intention in its charter to destroy the Jewish State and remains irredentist having never renounced that aim. World leaders have seen what Israeli territorial concessions have brought and that is not peace but escalating violence first from South Lebanon and then from the Gaza Strip after Israel uprooted her forces (and thousands of her citizens from communities) there. Even in areas Israel allowed the Palestinian Authority to assert more control over post-Oslo Accords, peace did not ensue, but ever more deadly Intifada. With this violent track record, the world is not so naive as to believe the new Palestine blessed by the United Nations will be any different. The newest nation so created will offer the Kalashnikov, not the olive branch and the Katyusha, not the dove of peace. The sad fact is that every country that votes for the creation of Palestine is well aware of past violence where Israel gave Palestinians freer rein and know that their action at the United Nations will bring a bloody outcome.

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