Baker wants to reverse cause and effect.

Submitted by MelM (United States), Dec 10, 2006 at 22:41

We constantly hear that solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is required if we are to end terrorism. Now, the Iraq Study Group wants a new effort. There is an assumption that there can be a solution that's "fair" and will satisfy Islam. In reality, all that happens and all that can happen is appeasement. I have come to the conclusion that there is no solution to the Palestinian-Israel conflict until Islamic totalitarianism is properly dealt with. Without that, there will NEVER be a solution. Islam wants the destruction of Israel and tells us this every day. A Palestinian state would be an Islamic state with the single minded goal--supported by its Islamic neighbors--of destroying Israel. I think such a state would become armed-to-the-teeth with an economy at least partly supported by U.S. aid.

Bush unexpectedly ran into radical Islam in Iraq and there's no hope for a decent Iraq without cutting off the heads of Islamic totalitarianism. We've got the order of solutions backwards in Iraq and trying to solve Islamic totalitarianism via solving the Palestinian-Israeli problem first , is again getting the order of solutions backwards--putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. Pushing Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and the Golan Heights is pure 1938 all over again; the jihadis would scream with joy and look for more. Nothing would be solved.

Israel is free and the only worthwhile country in a region full of junk states and a murderous ideology. She's therefore a natural ally; putting her in increased danger by appeaseing Islam is truely immoral. Allowing Isreal to crush Hezbollah and Hamas is the best solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that can be had in the short run.

I'm really afraid that continued failure to engage and defeat Islamic totalitarianism head-on is going to cause more and more pressure for really ugly appeasement solutions. Maybe the first thing we have to do is to understand and combat the sources of this suicidal appeasement mentality in the U.S.

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