If there was one lesson to be learned from Oct 7, it’s don’t negotiate with terrorists.
If there was one lesson to be learned from Oct 7, it’s don’t negotiate with terrorists. But that’s the one lesson no one seems to be willing to learn, as David Wurmser notes at the Center for Security Policy.
A U.S. plan, spearheaded by the diplomatic efforts of the U.S., and led by Amos Hochstein (who negotiated the Lebanon Maritime Agreement) and the French government, is emerging to diffuse tension along Israel’s northern border. The U.S. and France appear to propose a plan with three elements. Hizballah withdraws its forces northward. Israel concedes all the disputed areas along the border. And finally, the area between Israel and Hizballah will be filled by the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).
The LAF, despite the money we spend on them, just does whatever Hezbollah tells them.
A deal in which Israel concedes more territory to Lebanon in exchange for a proposed Hezbollah withdrawal is less than worthless. Hezbollah can move back whenever it chooses and Israel will be denied the ability to reclaim the territory. The same brilliant minds that thought Hamas could be moderated with money also promised that Hezbollah could be moderated with money by ceding maritime territory to be used for energy harvesting to Lebanon. The insane thing is that these same people are now pushing this.
Islamic terror groups don’t moderate. They take whatever you give them and use it to go ahead and kill you.
And yet here we are. Israel is trying to pressure Lebanon to push back Hezbollah so that tens of thousands of Israelis who have been displaced by Hezbollah attacks can go home. (Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been displaced in total. The media is obviously not covering this.)
Israel is proposing a military solution. The Biden administration and France are proposing a land-for-truce deal that would weaken Israel’s ability to respond to future attacks from Hezbollah.
It’s as if Oct 7 never happened.
Les says
There was a Israel-Hezbollah deal and a (supposable) cease fire before the 7th October
gravenimage says
Yep…shows what these terrorist “cease fires” are worth…
Stive says
The whole Gaza conflict is because Israel released 1000 terrorists that includes sinwar and the 3 billionaire Hamas leaders in Qatar for one single soldier Gilad Shalit. While I’m glad he is alive, thousands have died from that trade.so it was a sure mistake even had Shalit not lived.
And now doing same blunder again and again. Sorry, but that’s insanity.
Les says
Also – as for a land-for-truce deal, there have been many such deals; not least in 2005 when the Israelis completely withdrew from the Gaza strip.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Les.
And the very next year, the “Palestinians” voted in Hamas.
gravenimage says
And yet “pro-Palestinians” *still* claim that Israel is “occupying Gaza”–even though they haven’t been there since 2005.
somehistory says
I fear the terrorists and those working on their behalf, will get what they want.
Peacelover says
‘It’s as if Oct 7 never happened’….just like {some}people in the U,S. concerning 9/11
gravenimage says
Too true–often 9/11 is characterized not as a Jihad terror attack, but as a date when Muslims were (supposedly) oppressed in the US. Utter madness.
Hudders. says
Here’s a plug socket. Stick that fork in there…….
What?! You want to do it again?! Good luck with that.
Believing islamist leaders, teachers & those who echo their insane evil ejacultions, is like drinking deadly poison, but then expecting ones’ enemies to perish.
It is a devilish deluded madness of the highest order.
Samblamm says
Never listen to countries that don’t know how to win.War stinks,It’s not for nice guys.If you fight you must be nasty.We have not won a war since 1945.We won because we had the best weapons,And a lot of help.If the French teach you how to make wine,you listen,Tell macron to go hide in a closet and continue wacking.Fight the way your enemy fights.If they can’t stand the pressure they should not have been so brutal.If you want Israel to stop bombing ,turn against hammas,Also it’s a good idea to tell the mullah’s that they are full of shit,And to pick up a gun or shut up.As a former Private I have a right to tell you what I know……
Michelle Innes says
http://www.thezakatfoundation.org and http://www.palestinelegal.org needs to go away
Michelle Innes says
#recitequran needs to go away
Mark says
They will all countries together trying to destroy Israel , but the Almighty has different opinion . It will happen during some weeks now , the final battle of evil and good .
Jerome from Layton says
Anybody remember “way back when” that the PLO rejected the “two state solution”? I don’t think Quid Pro Joe actually believes this stuff. Just duck speak as described by George Orwell.
gravenimage says
The Biden Regime is Pushing for an Israel-Hezbollah Deal
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Demanding that Israel give Hamas terrorists a break to regroup–and be able to murder more Israelis…