reply - trying to please the co-conspirators at the UN is futile

Submitted by sully (United States), Jan 1, 2006 at 17:04

For 51 years the Israelis have been pulling their punches and trying to arrive at a reasonable accommodation with the Palestinians and the frontline Arab states at a price less than mass suicide. And for most of those years those who scream the loudest in purporting to believe in "International Law" and "Justice" have been unremitting in their criticism of and demands on the Israelis and at the same time unstinting in framing their excuses for the worst Palestinian outrages.

In the context of that it is the height of folly for Israel to base its actions on the likely opinions of the carefully moderate sounding racists at the UN.

The Palestinian people in Gaza and on the other side of the fence in the West Bank now have an ideal opportunity to show that they can control their mad dogs and live in peace when separated by a barrier from the Israelis. Should they fail to do so there can be no moral oppobrium attached by reasonable people to any action that the Israelis choose to take in their own defense, including the establishment of any buffers they deem necessary.

As to any movements of people which may be necessary in order to establish needed buffers there are very few people in the world who possess a platform of righteousness from which to criticize the Israelis regardless of their past or future actions since no one has effectively criticized the Muslim countries which have engaged in unstinting ethnic cleansing of Jews, Christians and others for most of 1400 years.

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