It’s Time For The US To Get Out Of The Israeli/Palestinian Peace Process

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It’s Time For The US To Get Out Of The Israeli/Palestinian Peace Process

Written By : John Hawkins

Rarely do I agree with Thomas Friedman, but on this, I think he’s right:

The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes, with the same old tired clichés — and that no one believes any of it anymore. There is no romance, no sex, no excitement, no urgency — not even a sense of importance anymore. The only thing driving the peace process today is inertia and diplomatic habit. Yes, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has left the realm of diplomacy. It is now more of a calisthenic, like weight-lifting or sit-ups, something diplomats do to stay in shape, but not because they believe anything is going to happen. And yet, as much as we, the audience, know this to be true, we can never quite abandon hope for peace in the Holy Land. It is our habit.

…This peace process movie is not going to end differently just because we keep playing the same reel. It is time for a radically new approach. And I mean radical. I mean something no U.S. administration has ever dared to do: Take down our “Peace-Processing-Is-Us” sign and just go home.

Right now we want it more than the parties. They all have other priorities today. And by constantly injecting ourselves we’ve become their Novocain. We relieve all the political pain from the Arab and Israeli decision-makers by creating the impression in the minds of their publics that something serious is happening. “Look, the U.S. secretary of state is here. Look, she’s standing by my side. Look, I’m doing something important! Take our picture. Put it on the news. We’re on the verge of something really big and I am indispensable to it.” This enables the respective leaders to continue with their real priorities — which are all about holding power or pursuing ideological obsessions — while pretending to advance peace, without paying any political price.

Let’s just get out of the picture. Let all these leaders stand in front of their own people and tell them the truth: “My fellow citizens: Nothing is happening; nothing is going to happen. It’s just you and me and the problem we own.”

Indeed, it’s time for us to dust off James Baker’s line: “When you’re serious, give us a call: 202-456-1414. Ask for Barack. Otherwise, stay out of our lives. We have our own country to fix.”

Isn’t he right? We’re not accomplishing anything by engaging in the “peace process.” The Palestinians have no interest in making any sort of “peace” with the Israelis that doesn’t include genocide and taking all their land.

The surrounding nations? They don’t want the fighting to stop because the Israelis make wonderful scapegoats. Pay no attention to how you’re treated in your own country, Middle-Eastern peon, get angry at the Israelis instead.

So, if nothing is happening, then we should ask: What are we actually accomplishing? We give money to Palestinian savages who hate us to gain influence and not only does it buy us nothing, it ends up being used for terrorism.

Worse yet, since we can’t get the Palestinians to behave, we end up pressuring the Israelis, our only real allies in the Middle East, to make ridiculous concessions that never actually accomplish anything.

If our goal is to accomplish something, we have to ask what we’re accomplishing? If our goal is to help our friends, the Israelis, we have to ask how we’re helping them?

When the Palestinians get tired of living like backwards, murderous primitives and want to choose peace and prosperity over self-sabotage, murder, and turning their children into terrorists, then let them call us. Until then, let’s just quietly support our friends in Israel and let the Palestinians simmer in a hell of their own making.

BIG

I agree as long as we can get the UN out of it too. End UNRWA and place the PLO-Arabs under the same rules as all the other refugees on the planet instead of their “special” status. Ending UNRWA is the only possible path to peace and as long as it exits, there will never be peace in the region.
Mike_M

We have to get the money out of the process too. As long as the Palestinians can cry “victim” and have cash rain down from the sky, there will never be peace.

On the flip side, our relationship with Israel becoming damaging for both sides as well. They are restrained by our billions in economic aid, which also seduces every US President into trying to be “the one” that brings peace to the Middle East. Clearly the arrangement isn’t working.

It’s time to cut off the bribes to Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinians, while also making it clear that any attempted extermination of Israel will be met with a hostile response from us. Aside from that, let them sort it out.

(Besides, if we get out of the conflict it’s much more likely that Israel will have the problem solved in a few weeks by itself.)
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

While I agree, it is true that President Obama was presented as the grand savior of the entire area and President Bush was mocked for not doing enough to bring about peace in the region.

Obama tried for what, 10 months before giving up? Of that he probably put in a week’s effort? Yeah. Smart diplomacy, hope and change.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

“Isn’t he right? We’re not accomplishing anything by engaging in the “peace process.” The Palestinians have no interest in making any sort of “peace” with the Israelis that doesn’t include genocide and taking all their land.”
John Hawkins

Sums up the whole problem rather nicely John.
D-Vega

As soon as you say this, then that means no more money to Israel either. And that would never happen. So we are stuck being involved in this.
BIG

Posted by D-Vega
2009-11-10 16:55:27

Israel would survive without the money from the American governement. Egypt will certainly fall and so would Jordan. If international money was removed from the PLO-Arabs, they would be amongst the poorest people on the planet. UNRWA employs over 70% of the population in Gaza.

There will be war in the region if we pull out. But will the international community stand for the Arabs getting another ass kicking?
D-Vega

Israel would survive without the money from the American governement.

I think they would disagree.
BIG

The aid from America is a small part of their GDP. Most of the aid the Israelis receive are in credits that they spend with companies like Boeing. Taking away this aid would also cost jobs in America. The USA doesn’t hand Israel cash like they do with the PLO-Arabs. By the Americans giving money directly to the PLO-Arabs, this enables others in the mideast to just supply arms since food and medicine are handed to them from the west. When you compare that with what the Egyptians, Jordainians, and PLO-Arabs receive in handouts, cutting ALL aid to the region would hurt the Muslims much more.

Where Israel would need our help is in resupply when the Arab world attacks. If we withhold that, then they are in trouble.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Whether they’d survive without American aid or not, leaving the area to its own without trying to continually force idiotic peace plans on them does not translate into abandoning aid to Israel.

Personally I’d like to see all foreign aid money disappear. Find me the part of the US Constitution which grants the federal government the power to take money from its citizens to give to people outside its borders.

It ain’t there.
tazzmax

Christopher Taylor, I agree with you 100%!

It has always angered me that our arrogant govt thinks they have the right to tax us to death and in turn give billions to foreign govt tyrants who mostly despise us.

This crap needs to end, but unfortunately, it has been going on as long as I can remember.

We, the great unwashed have very little to say about what our un-representative tyrant govt does.

Hawkins is right,…we should “pull out” of the phony peace deal between Israel and Pali-swinies,….only warn the world that America will not stand by for a full scale invasion of Israel.
Mike_M

“Find me the part of the US Constitution which grants the federal government the power to take money from its citizens to give to people outside its borders.”

Or within its borders.
rmiller

There will be war in the region if we pull out. But will the international community stand for the Arabs getting another ass kicking?
Posted by BIG
2009-11-10 17:02:38

I’m not so sure that Israel would survive an American withdrawl from the peace process.

While I have the utmost respect for the IDF, Israel standing alone sends shivers up my spine.

Israel is not in the same militarily dominant position now that it has been in the past.

Times change, and we need to change our thinking with it.
http://ragingtory.blogspot.com Justin_Hoffer

Oh, the Israelis would be just fine without American money (I say this as a future Israeli… I qualify for the Right of Return and will be getting my citizenship next year, and a stint in the Israeli military will follow). They would be a lot better off with the American money, but it isn’t a necessity. The people who do need it are the Egyptians. Their government, with American aid, is only barely keeping the Islamic Brotherhood at bay. Trust me, having Egypt conquered by the Islamic Brotherhood would be much worse than the money spent on Egypt each year.
BIG

The AMerican government has done more to harm Israel than help. If America and the world were to leave the region and just let the local players fight it out, things would be much better for almost all concerned. The PLO-Arabs would starve to death because you can’t eat explosive belts. Egypt will fall to the Islamic extremists and they will be too busy murdering the Muslims loyal to Mubarak and then the Copts to even contemplate attacking Israel. Syria would attack and it will probably be chemical and biological. And Lebanon would unleash quite a fury with all the weapons the UN has helped bring in there. Jordan is going to be hard to calculate what is going to happen. Since Jordan was founded on 76% of the British Mandate for Palestine, it might just become the homeland of the PLO-Arabs. Israel would hopefully expel the illegally occupying PLO-Arabs from Judea and that would take care of that problem.

The rest of the Muslim world will cheer the fighters on and jihadis from across the globe will flock to the region to claim their virgins. The only real problem Israel will have is if America, the Europeans, and the UN step in and muck with the going ons. That is the only sure way of making sure there will never be peace in the region.
D-Vega

First of all, Israel needs the money for their military, something they would need even more of if we decided to pull money out of the muslim sections.

Second of all, Israel may not even exist today if not for the U.S. and its one of the few allies of Israel in the entire world, maybe even the only one.

Israel needs us more than the muslim areas do. Because they would still get aid from the muslim countries and Europe, whereas Israel may not get anything from those guys.
BIG

Of course the Europeans and Muslims will still fund the destruction of Israel as they have for decades. But America has been a fairweather friend to Israel since 1948. All Truman did was recognize Israel. There was no support. It was Ike that stopped the take over of the Suez by Israel. Up until the 1967 war, France was Israel’s largest military supplier.

What you don’t seem to understand about aid to Israel is that it is ALL given in credits that she spends in Amnerica, unlike the money given to PLO-Arabs which is in cash. If America stops the credits, jobs will be lost in America. When you add in that a lot of the R&D done on the equipment by the Israelis is shared with the US, we probably save money by doing this. Israel would get along just fine without the aid from America.

Where she would lose is in the sanctions placed upon her by the rest of the world. Right now, China and Russia are stopping any real sanctions on Iran. Only America stands in the way of sanctions being placed on Israel. A worldwide effort to eradicate Israel would work whereas if the effort excludes the USA, it wouldn’t. Israel can withstand a conflict with the entire Muslim world and Europe. If the US joins into this cabal, then she is finished. If the US stops all funding to Israel’s neighbors, many will fall into the radical ranks. But a 7th century mentality cannot destroy Israel. Only a leftist one can.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

As a general rule, Muslim nations do not send each other aid.
BIG

I consider the bullets, rockets, and munitions Muslim nations send to the PLO-Arabs aid. Since the PLO-Arabs are nothing but a death cult, this aids them in their pursuit.