from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 08:11 PM PST

During the time of Chanukah, a holiday inspired by the
resistance of a band of brothers to the tyranny of Aniochus IV of the
Seleucid Empire, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is instead confronting
the consequences of buckling under to Obama's tyranny by imposing a
building freeze on hundreds of thousands of Israelis living in Judea and
Samaria.

As police, housing inspectors and Jewish area residents scuffle
over attempts to stop construction on private houses that their owner are
already paying mortgages on-- the "settlement freeze" has emerged as yet
another disastrous chapter in the long history of Israeli concessions
meant to create peace, where there is no peace. Intended as yet another
"confidence building gesture" to reassure the Palestinian Authority, which
had already preemptively rejected it as well as any further negotiations,
but in reality was more of an attempt to appease Obama by propping up his
foreign policy credentials-- the "settlement freeze" has wreaked economic
havoc on the lives of everyone from newlyweds planning to move into their
first home, families looking to add an addition to accommodate an addition
to their family to larger housing projects for Israel's growing population
of immigrants from Russia and parts of the Middle East where Jews have
traditionally been oppressed.

And so in the name of appeasing Obama
and Palestinian Arab terrorists, Netanyahu's actions have touched off
tensions among Israelis and worsened the economic situation of many
working class families. And all for nothing. The "confidence building
gesture" did not build any confidence on the Palestinian Arab side, which
is confident enough to bypass negotiations entirely in the hopes of
bullying Israel into agreeing to yet more concessions before even
bothering to sit down at the negotiating table. Neither did it appease the
Obama Administration, which remains frustrated that it could not get Jews
barred from living in East Jerusalem, which under Jordanian occupation had
its Jewish population ethnically cleansed. Like every confidence building
gesture that Israel has made in the past, this one has been both
destructive and futile, forcing Israel to pay dearly with nothing to show
for it.

Unfortunately from the very beginning, Israel's leaders
harbored a false dream of peace that has never been fulfilled. And that
mirage of a friendly Middle East has tricked Prime Minister after Prime
Minister into cutting deals that cut Israel's throat. In 1947, Israel was
prepared to accept a UN partition plan that would have left a fingernail
of territory for native Israelis and refugees from the Holocaust to build
a state on. But the Arab powers rejected the partition plan, and the
resulting War of Independence enabled Israel to hold on to at least
marginally defensible borders. Had Egypt's Nasser and Jordan's Hussein not
chosen war with Israel in 1967, Israel would have remained within those
same weak borders and with its capital city cut in half. But Nasser and
Hussein chose war and so Israel reunited Jerusalem and liberated some of
its villages in Gaza and Judea and Samaria that had fallen into enemy
hands in 1948, such as Kfar Darom, villages that the international
community would insist on calling "settlements" and "occupied
territories". And without those territories as buffer zones, it is likely
that Israel would have been cut and half, and destroyed in the Yom Kippur
War of 1973.

The enemy however learned from their mistakes. Israel turned
over the Sinai to Egypt in exchange for a cold peace, in which Israelis
travel to Egypt at the risk of their own lives and the Egyptian Army
regularly conducts training exercises preparing for a war with Israel.
Then in 1993 Israel signed a deal with archterrorist Yassir Arafat,
turning over portions of Gaza, Judea and Samaria to him in exchange for
peace. Instead the result was a terrorist state that sent through suicide
bombers and rockets into Israel proper to murder entire families in their
homes, in cafes and on buses. To shell schools and bomb shopping malls, to
turn daily life into a constant state of war in which parents hand out
cell phones to their children so they can call and check on them after a
terrorist attack happens and know that they are still alive.

That
is the life that the false dream of peace has brought to Israel. The
illusion that a Muslim middle east will ever accept a non-Arab and
non-Muslim state on terms of brotherhood and friendship, an act that would
require every Muslim to turn his back on the Koran and every Arab
Socialist to turn his back on his national pride. But that has not stopped
Israel from chasing the false dream of peace, in part in the hope of
peace, and in part because of unrelenting pressure by the governments of
the United States and Europe who are chasing their own false dream of
peace, believing that the Muslim crocodile can be appeased by dangling the
tiny state of Israel above its gaping jaws.

And so the false dream
of peace keeps on going with a life of its own. Like a lost traveler
stumbling across the desert dunes, the peacemakers keep seeing a mirage of
peace ahead of them, that vanishes the moment it seems to be within actual
reach. And by chasing after the mirage of peace, Israel is destroying
itself day by day. What in 1993 was an autonomous region has now turned
into two hard core terrorist states inside Israel's borders. What in 1993
was an occasional attack, has now become an all out war with rockets
flying through the night sky. What in 1993 was an internal problem, now
has the nations of the world talking about how to divide Israel. That is
what 17 years of striving for the false hope of peace has brought Israel.
And the nation cannot survive another 17 years of it. Not as anything more
than another diaspora dream of a people that will one day live again in
its own land.

Netanyahu's surrender to Obama, has like every
concession only further undermined Israel's position, increased civil
tensions and whetted the appetite of its enemies. Two thousand, one
hundred and seventy six years ago, the story of Chanukah began when the
brothers and sister of a single family in the town of Modiin, rather close
to the towns considered settlements today, rose up to fight for the right
to live as free men and women in their own land. Today, two generations
after that reborn dream was achieved again, Israel's governments are
treating the land and the people like the contents of a bankrupt store at
a fire sale. And that cannot go on.

While Peres and Obama whisper
about a Two State Solution in Netanyahu's ear, ordinary Israelis have
suffered a bloody 17 year toll of murders, stabbings, bombings and
shootings as a result of the Two State Solution, a solution that has
created two terrorist states inside Israel, one run by Fatah and one run
by Hamas. Considering that there is no legal or unified Palestinian Arab
government, any talk of such a solution is a farce meant to appease
Muslims at the cost of Israel. And for as long as Islamic oil and Islamic
immigration continue to be potent forces before which the world bows--
that will not change. Yet lost in a dream of peace, too many Israelis
remain unwilling to recognize that tragic reality.

There can be no
peace with Islam, only resistance or submission. Israel's long bloody
pursuit of the false hope of peace has only weakened its ability to
resist. Europe's Dhimmis have filled Israel with "peace" groups such as
Peace Now or Rabbis for Human Rights whose mission is to undermine and
destroy Israel. Who rabidly hate the idea of a Jewish state and want to
see it gone by any means necessary. Meanwhile as Islamic immigration
overruns Europe, its politicians take a club to Israel in the hopes of
keeping the throat slittings from their door. Meanwhile successive US
administrations remain wedded to the notion that a stable Middle East
depends on Israel cutting a deal with the terrorists who plague it. All of
these ideas are equally delusional, equally false and equally
unchangeable. Too many foreign policy establishments have set them up as
dogma and too many politicians are afraid of confronting Ahmed and Abdul
torching cars on the streets of Paris or Oslo. There is nothing Israel can
do to change that, but to take itself off the table.

There will be no solution to Iran's drive for nuclear
domination coming from Washington D.C. There will be no peaceful
resolution to a conflict that began when Mohammed's cohorts first began
massacring Jews over a thousand years ago in Camp David or Annapolis or
anywhere else. While Netanyahu has chosen to play political games, to give
failed former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Barak free reign to
impose a left wing crusade against Zionist and religious Jews, and to try
and play both sides with no real endgame in mind-- the candles of Chanukah
are burning down, the wicks flicker and are gone. The light of that one
flask of oil burned for eight days on faith. Without faith, it is nothing
more than oil and cotton. Without faith and willpower, Israel is nothing
more than Singapore in the middle of a war zone holding a fire sale for
its land and its people. If Israel does not wake up from the false dream
of peace, and take the Maccabees as its model, rather than Gandhi, it too
will flicker out in the darkness and be gone.