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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Israel Attacked on Four Fronts

Jul 18, 2014 9:34 am By Robert Spencer

Paratroopers-train-on-Mt-Hermon-Photo-IDF-Spokesman-officeIn FrontPage today I explain how recent actions against Israel show the failure of earlier episodes of the “peace process”:

The wreckage of earlier Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts – the Camp David Accords, Oslo, the Road Map to Peace and all the rest – was on particularly vivid display this week.

Reuters reported Monday that “at least one rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel on Monday….The rocket was fired from the area around the southern city of Tyre, Lebanese security sources said.” AFP noted that “a rocket fired from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights on Sunday.” Rockets from Gaza continue to hit Israel despite the Israeli defensive actions. And according to Al Arabiya, “Egyptian security thwarted on Sunday an attempt to launch two rockets from Sinai at Israel.”

Southern Lebanon, Gaza, Sinai – all previously “occupied territory” from which Israel withdrew in order to help bring about peace.

Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in May 2000. Prime Minister Ehud Barack’s government thought that the withdrawal would show that Israel was serious about making peace, and would bring to an end the relentless attacks against Israel at the United Nations and in the international media. Israel withdrew from Gaza in September 2005. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government thought that the withdrawal would show that Israel was serious about making peace, and would bring to an end the relentless attacks against Israel at the United Nations and in the international media. Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula by 1982 as part of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty resulting from the Camp David Accords. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s government thought that the withdrawal would show that Israel was serious about making peace, and would bring to an end the relentless attacks against Israel at the United Nations and in the international media.

Are you starting to see a pattern?

Israel carried out all three of these withdrawals in pursuit of peace. But peace never came.

The UN and the media never let up on Israel, and in each case, the Israeli withdrawal led to the previously “occupied territory” becoming a base for new jihad attacks against the Jewish state.

How many more times is this going to have to happen before the leaders of the free world stop pressuring Israel into entering into these self-defeating and fruitless “peace” agreements? The events of the last few days have assuredly not persuaded Barack Obama and John Kerry to stop pressuring Israel to withdraw from the “settlements” so as to show that Israel is serious about making peace, and to bring to an end the relentless attacks against Israel at the United Nations and in the international media. But even if such an agreement comes about, and it looks unlikely now with the latest jihad savagery and Netanyahu apparently resolute against it, it will fail, yet again. The war against Israel is a jihad for the sake of Islam. It will never be negotiated away. It will never be turned away from its ultimate goal of the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews.

Obama and Kerry and the rest may know this. Obama’s anti-Semitic associations are so many and so long-lasting that it is hard to sustain the idea that he is pressing the Israelis to curtail their latest operations and enter into what would certainly be a disastrous ceasefire agreement with Hamas out of naivete and a well-meaning but ill-considered desire to make peace. He must know. And many in the Leftist intelligentsia must know.

Those who do not yet know, however, should ponder the spectacle of Israel being attacked from southern Lebanon, Gaza and the Sinai all in one day, as well as from Syria, with which the Nixon Administration pressed Israel to make peace in 1973.

It is long past time for a new paradigm in Washington — an across-the-board repudiation of the prevailing political establishment, and the ascendancy of people who are willing to face the reality of the jihad threat in its full magnitude, and to defend Israel to the hilt as being on the front line of that jihad. But with the Republicans so richly deserving their sobriquet of The Stupid Party, such a change in the political culture is not, alas, on the horizon.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jul 18, 2014 at 10:06 am

    Off topic:
    I don’t wish to detract from the seriousness of this topic but, that soldier sure looks a lot like Jerry Seinfeld.

  2. John C. Barile says

    Jul 18, 2014 at 10:13 am

    Paradigm–repudiation–prevailing–ascendancy–magnitude–sobriquet–alas– –gee, Robert, I actually think you’re channeling Hugh Fitzgerald.

  3. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    I think we should acknowledge that even if Israel retained all the land it willingly surrendered, there would still be four-sides to it from where it would still be attacked ( and that includes seaborne attacks). No, the problem does not concern the geographical extent of Israel’s borders but what lies beyond its borders – Islam. The fight will continue as long as Islam continues. The West must stand firm with Israel until the scourge is at last annihilated.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 18, 2014 at 7:38 pm

      And that’s why, even though our *governments* are still mostly clueless, or lukewarm, or alas hostile toward Israel, I would hope that this time around, Israeli embassies in non-Muslim countries all around the world will be experiencing an avalanche of incoming messages of encouragement and solidarity from ordinary – and non-Jewish – citizens of said countries; a flood so overwhelming that it it is totally drowning out and sweeping away the incoming “hate mail” that they will also be receiving from the usual suspects.

      I would also hope that, this time around, such Israeli organisations on their home front as specialise in providing comforts for the soldiers will experiencing a sudden and massive influx of donations from abroad; with the usual and expected contributions from diaspora Jews joined and matched or outweighed by contributions from perfectly ordinary English, Dutch, Australian, Canadian, American, even Indian and other non-Muslim Gentiles who have figured out what Jihad is all about and have decided that they can best strike a blow against jihad by channelling some resources to a young IDF soldier who is right out there on the front-lines defending civilisation, life, and basic humanity.

  4. JIMJFOX says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 5:51 am

    Last paragraph- perfect, Robert. Complete summation of the paradox faced by the USA and the frailty of a two-party political system.

    You have no viable alternative, the choice is stupidity or weakness.

  5. AnneM says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 6:42 am

    God Bless Israel!

  6. Christopher S.M says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    Those who are incurerably optimistic that peace can be achieved between Israel and Palestinians on one hand and between Christians and Muslims on the other hand should hear this: JIHAD/VIOLENCE IS AN INHERENT PART OF ISLAM WHICH CANNOT BE NEGOTIATED AWAY IN THE NAME OF PEACE.

    The Bible is clear on the fact that there will be permanent hostility between Esau and Jacob.

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