I Just Can't Help But Laugh...
The headline is "Israel's Political Situation Dims Hopes for Peace Deal"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/world/middleeast/01diplo.html?ref=middleeast
Um, no.
Well, I mean, I guess, theoretically -- but whose hopes? 'Cause over here, in the actual Middle East, I don't know of a single person who had any realistic hope that we'd somehow have peace by the end of the year -- other than us religious Jews, who think there's hope for Divine Intervention at any moment.
Olmert? Bring peace? I don't think so. We're still pretty ticked off at him for sending our soldiers into a badly-planned war two years ago, without food and water, and then having them turn tail and run -- leaving Hezbullah in a situation where they can re-stock all their weapons.
And we're ticked off at him for not taking care of the Gush Katif refugees, or any of the other Jews who were yanked unceremoniously out of their homes three years ago, leaving them to fend for themselves in tent cities.
And we're ticked off at him for giving away dangerous, live terrorists in exchange for dead bodies.
And we're ticked off at him for being corrupt.
And we're ticked off at him for saying the houses of the terrorists would be destroyed, only to back off and not actually do anything.
So basically, there wasn't a snowball's chance in a very hot place that he could possibly make some sort of binding agreement regarding "final status issues" in any sort of peace deal.
When President Clinton scrambled during the last weeks of his presidency in 2000/01 to try and come up with some sort of peace deal -- there was at least the snowball's chance... but as we were sinking quickly into the "Second Intifada," it didn't happen.
Since then, I cannot think of one single concession that the "Palestinians" have agreed to -- not one. Not a single freakin' one. And they elected Hamas to govern them.
So the only person who will be bringing peace to this region any time in the near future will be the messenger G-d sends to bring in the Redemption. And for sure, that's more realistic than Dubya, Olmert and Abbas actually bringing peace.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/world/middleeast/01diplo.html?ref=middleeast
Um, no.
Well, I mean, I guess, theoretically -- but whose hopes? 'Cause over here, in the actual Middle East, I don't know of a single person who had any realistic hope that we'd somehow have peace by the end of the year -- other than us religious Jews, who think there's hope for Divine Intervention at any moment.
Olmert? Bring peace? I don't think so. We're still pretty ticked off at him for sending our soldiers into a badly-planned war two years ago, without food and water, and then having them turn tail and run -- leaving Hezbullah in a situation where they can re-stock all their weapons.
And we're ticked off at him for not taking care of the Gush Katif refugees, or any of the other Jews who were yanked unceremoniously out of their homes three years ago, leaving them to fend for themselves in tent cities.
And we're ticked off at him for giving away dangerous, live terrorists in exchange for dead bodies.
And we're ticked off at him for being corrupt.
And we're ticked off at him for saying the houses of the terrorists would be destroyed, only to back off and not actually do anything.
So basically, there wasn't a snowball's chance in a very hot place that he could possibly make some sort of binding agreement regarding "final status issues" in any sort of peace deal.
When President Clinton scrambled during the last weeks of his presidency in 2000/01 to try and come up with some sort of peace deal -- there was at least the snowball's chance... but as we were sinking quickly into the "Second Intifada," it didn't happen.
Since then, I cannot think of one single concession that the "Palestinians" have agreed to -- not one. Not a single freakin' one. And they elected Hamas to govern them.
So the only person who will be bringing peace to this region any time in the near future will be the messenger G-d sends to bring in the Redemption. And for sure, that's more realistic than Dubya, Olmert and Abbas actually bringing peace.
posted by M at 00:32
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