By Alan
Caruba:
The
Israelis are ready to go to war even if the United States is not.
The news
out of the Middle East reflects how President Obama’s policies have led to an
Islamic terrorist takeover of huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. No nation watches
these events more closely than Israel. On June 6 the chief of the Israeli
Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz cryptically remarked that the IDF is
gearing up to address the growing numbers of terrorist forces on its border
with Syria. He noted Iraq as well for good measure.
When Israel
is in the news, it is usually because it is under attack or responding to one.
The only other times have been news of “peace talks” between it and the
Palestinian Authority (PA), but none of those talks over decades has ever
achieved peace because, as the diplomatic community knows, the Palestinians do
not want it.
Most
recently, the PA announced “unity” with Hamas, a Palestinian organization that
all nations identify as terrorist. As Efraim Inbar, the director of the
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and a fellow of the Middle East Forum,
recently noted, “As long as the military branch of Hamas remains independent,
there is no Palestinian unity.”
Why the PA would engage in this charade is known only to them. There are no advantages in it because they do not gain any presence in the Gaza Strip, the home to Hamas. As far as the U.S. and Europe are concerned, says Inbar, “the establishment of a real, stable Palestinian state (is) more unlikely than ever.” Hamas has already asserted itself by kidnapping three teenagers, one of whom is an American...Continue reading... Related: Israel has 80 of the world's nuclear warheads
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