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A World Where Hatred is More Dangerous Than War – Part II

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Rex Tillerson has secured the endorsement of some prominent former American foreign policy players: Condoleeza Rice, Robert Gates, and Steve Hadley. And here’s the “but.” He has also gotten the blessing of Brent Scowcroft, former US national security advisor as well as that of James Baker, former US secretary of state. Neither was a friend of Israel’s, the latter having famously opined: “F**k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway.”
Meir Jolovitz writes: “Trump has been consistent and quite adamant about his desire to either rework or renege on the nuclear deal that Obama/Kerry worked out with the Islamic Republic of Iran, enabling it to rightfully possess the bomb in less than twelve years.”

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Third. Rex Tillerson has secured the endorsement of some prominent former American foreign policy players: Condoleeza Rice, Robert Gates, and Steve Hadley. And here’s the “but.” He has also gotten the blessing of Brent Scowcroft, former US national security advisor as well as that of James Baker, former US secretary of state. Neither was a friend of Israel’s, the latter having famously opined: “F**k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway.”

Actually, taken together, this does not avert a fourth certainly. That the peace process between Arabs and Jews, will fail. And this as well: Israel will be found to be at fault by the United Nations, the European Union, and most of the same liberal media that has held Israelis culpable simply because they, well, exist. But unlike the history of the previous American administrations, with a President Trump, there finally exists the hope that Israel will not be blamed.

Trump has been consistent and quite adamant about his desire to either rework or renege on the nuclear deal that Obama/Kerry worked out with the Islamic Republic of Iran, enabling it to rightfully possess the bomb in less than twelve years. The president-elect’s choice of advisors, vocal opponents of that nation’s sponsorship of international terrorism, reinforces that determination.

Candidate Trump several times boasted during the past year that he hoped to engineer that elusive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians because of his “deal-making” talents. He doubled-down when he suggested that Kushner seemed an obvious choice to lead the effort.

The failure to secure a viable (the operative word here is “viable”) peace treaty between Israelis and Palestinian is nothing new.

It was a little more than a year ago, in October 2015, when Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – everyone’s designated “peace partner” – praised the daily Arab violence against Israel and offered: “Each drop of blood that was spilled in Jerusalem is pure blood as long as it’s for the sake of Allah. Every shahid (martyr) will be in heaven and every wounded person will be rewarded, by Allah’s will.” Consistent with the PA honoring its fallen murderous terrorists by naming schools, town squares and soccer stadiums after them, the entire education of its children continues to be predicated on the dehumanization of the Jews. George Orwell warned us about this level of hatred, but we seemed not to pay any attention.

But despite this assault on humanity, there is talk of revitalizing a peace process. It is as farcical as it is misguided. And playing along is none other than Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu who still takes every opportunity to petition the Palestinians to come to negotiations. The same Palestinians who dehumanize – and applaud the murder of – his people.

Even Israel’s own National Security Council has argued that “the maximum that any Israeli government will be ready to offer the Palestinians and still survive, is much less than the minimum that any Palestinian leader can accept.” In any language, it does not bode well for any prospect for peace.

Memo, to anyone who will listen: It is not about territory. It is about Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish State. And the Arabs have offered us the Cliff Notes version: No Jewish State in the Middle East.

Bernard Lewis, the preeminent scholar of Middle East history has rightly written: “If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible.”

Memo to incoming President Donald Trump: It’s about the existence of Israel, so don’t pretend that some talented deal-maker, whether a high ranking senior strategist, or a well-intentioned son-in-law, can make this work.

Those who believe that peace is attainable are living a lie. Under several successive American administrations, we have been witness to a bogus peace process, and the blame placed at the lap of the Israelis for somehow not making it happen. It mattered not that a peace agreement, founded upon a series of false assumptions (that both parties desire peace) and incomprehensibly unattainable expectations (that Israel be diminished in territory including the forfeiture of Jerusalem), is an Arab Trojan horse leading Israel towards certain disaster.

American foreign policy – until January 20, 2017 – was predicated on an insanely unreasonable expectation that we continue to delude ourselves. But, in a world where hatred is more dangerous than war, the 2016 election just might have provided the very moral clarity that even George Orwell would have been proud of.

To paraphrase James Baker: F**k the Arabs. They don’t want peace anyway.

By: Meir Jolovitz

Meir Jolovitz, a Middle East analyst and lecturer, is a past national executive director of the Zionist Organization of America, and formerly associated with the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in Jerusalem

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