Daniel Greenfield article: The
Time for Talk is Over

Posted: 10 May 2010 08:13 PM PDT

The hard and fast rule is that if the terrorists can't manage
to kill you with their bombs, they'll kill you at the negotiating table.
If they can't even win the dirtiest war that their most perverse leaders
can conceive of, they can still talk you out of a country by promising to
make peace once you meet all their demands. And once they realize that
they can get more by changing out of their khakis and into a nice Armani
suit, and shifting the regularly scheduled bombings to days when the
negotiations aren't in session-- then the real killing
begins.

And so now right on schedule, the Obama Administration is
feverishly looking for ways to get the Israelis and the Fatah
terrorists back to the negotiating table to create a Palestinian state.
This is the sort of thing that was breaking news back in 1991. Today it's
a sad and sick farce being perpetuated not in the name of peace, but in
the name of appeasement. The Israeli left has staked its political
fortunes on destroying the country. The European left has rediscovered the
joys of openly hating Jews. The American left has discovered that with a
cultural Muslim at the top, sticking the knife into one of America's
closest allies just got a lot easier.

Peace is of course a good
thing. Which is why you usually don't have to negotiate it. Most people
naturally live at peace with each other. But when you have to spend the
better part of a century negotiating peace, clearly one side isn't all
that enthusiastic about peace. For the better part of the 20th century and
the crumbs of the 21st , Israel's various representatives, pre and post
state have been doing their best to negotiate peace. Yet oddly enough,
each time war resulted. Today Israel holds a fraction of the land
remaining from the Palestine Mandate, but its friendly neighborhood
Muslims chorus that it's still too much. If only they had a few more miles
here and there. And Jerusalem and the strategic high ground of the Golan
Heights, then maybe there would be peace. Maybe. Double
maybe.

Israel's critics insist that a Jewish state in the Arab
Muslim Middle East is a mistake. Which it of course it is from the Muslim
point of view, which insists that there can be no infidel states in the
region. But isn't that a working definition of Apartheid? The critics wail
over the fate of Hamas blockaded Gaza, but not over that of Islamic
blockaded Israel. Not even when the combined Arab Muslim powers of the
Middle East did their best to try and push the Jewish refugees from Islam
and the Holocaust into the sea.

But since they didn't succeed, as a
result the conflict was prolonged. Which is a fancy way of saying, "Those
Damned Jews Are Still Around." In 1948, quite a lot were hoping that the
matter would be settled once and for all. They were hoping that again in
1967. They were crossing their fingers for it in 1973. Their frustration
has reached a boiling point in 2010. And it's not hard to see why. They've
armed terrorists and placed them inside Israel's borders. They've
encouraged the terrorists to run wild, to kill and bomb. And they made
sure to restrain Israel from responding. They've orchestrated phony
negotiations in which Israel has turned over land and gotten bodies back
in return. And yet still Israel lives.

You can see the hysteria,
the undistilled rabid hatred at anti-war rallies in major cities across
the world where signs that would have made Goebbels blush with shame are
proudly held high. The Europeans are funding radical left wing groups
inside Israel that urge soldiers to desert, that assault Jewish farmers
and destroy their crops. The Russians are rushing nuclear technology to
Ahmadinejad, hoping that he can finish the job that their proxies tackled
in 1967 and 1973 to no avail. The Palestinian myth was a Moscow project
after all, and the current regime of KGB thugs and their business partners
have a certain desire to get the whole thing over with already. And Obama
holds his chin high and assails those damned Jews for having houses in
Jerusalem. How dare they? Don't they know that Barack Hussein Obama
learned all about Mohammed's night journey to Jerusalem on a flying horse
when he was but a wee tyke.

And with that atmosphere, the crazed
howls of the bomb smashing Israeli products, the Iranians tinkering with
their Russian nukes, the European diplomats slipping a few thousand
shekels here and there to the bored sons of the rich to go and organize
their domestic campaigns of treason, and the Obama himself sniffing in
outrage at that most insulting Israeli house-- the call is on to get back
to the negotiating table.

What is there to negotiate. An end to
terrorism? Don't be silly, not even the leftest of the left believe
anymore that anything Israel does will stop the violence. At least not
when they're stone cold sober. No, the negotiations will discuss the terms
on which Israel will meet the demands of the Palestinian Arab terrorist
group currently being backed by the "World Community". Not whether Israel
will do it. Not if Israel will do it. But on what terms Israel will do
it.

How much land, Israel will hand over in exchange for more bombs
and killings. How much of its own capital Israel will give away, in
exchange for more murders of its best and brightest. How much Israel will
be permitted to empower its worst enemies, who will go on preaching Jihad
against it in their schools, and handing out bomb belts like candy after a
suicide bombing.

Israel's goal in the negotiations will be to try to be as
reasonable as possible. Which as usual is the wrong approach. Fatah's
leader, Mahmoud Abbas has already announced that he has no interest in
negotiating anything with Israel, and would just like Obama to impose a
solution. This is akin to opening an auction by announcing that you know
the auctioneer personally and want the item for free. As the first foreign
leader, Obama called after taking office, Abbas can honestly say that he
knows the auctioneer, and he would like that kind gentleman to give him
Israel for free.

Israel's only ongoing demand in this endless sham
has been for an end to the terrorism. And not once in nearly two wretched
decades, has Israel gotten even a taste of that. But when the bugler on
the hill blows and cries, "Back to the Negotiating Table", it's back to
the negotiating table. Back to the same humiliating face, the same
murderous extravaganza of deceit and malignancy disguised as diplomacy.
But perhaps it's time for a new way.

In the 90's the Israeli left
argued that it was time to try something new. Peace. Now nearly a
generation later, perhaps it's time to try something new again. War. The
time for talk is over. If the terrorists are so determined to have war,
why not finally give it to them. No, not more blockades or occasional
raids. But actual war. A war to destroy the terrorist groups down to the
last man. Down to the last bearded madman teaching 6 year olds the virtues
of blowing themselves up while he marries an 8 year old. Down to the last
pimple faced thug taking a break from molesting his sister to launch
rockets at Israeli schools. Down to the last terrorist. Period.

The
terrorists themselves have made the argument for why the time for talk is
over. Perhaps it's time Israel finally started listening to
them.

Oh for Jerusalem’s trumpet now,
To blow a blast of
shattering power,
To wake the sleepers high and low,
And rouse
them to the urgent hour!
No hand for vengeance—but to save,
A
million naked swords should wave.

Even they who shrunk, even they
who slept,
Shall leap to bless it, and to save.
Strike! for the
brave revere the brave!

Emma Lazarus