No More Concessions

Israel has been backed into a corner, not by her enemies, but by Israel's supposed best friend. US "peace envoy" George Mitchell has threatened that the US with withdraw loan guarantees if the Israelis do not dance to Obama's tune and end the "settlement enterprise". This threat comes in the wake of negotiations with the Islamist terrorist group Hamas to ransom an abducted Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Any reward to Hamas strengthens that group that rejects the very existence of Israel and by strengthening Hamas' bloody hand, Israel helps the irredentist Palestinian factions cut the seemingly more moderate Abbas' throat. Israel must caution allies that she will not commit national suicide and restore deterrence to the Iran, Syria, terrorist equation.