Only if someone can give a powerful, rational response to David Horowitz's recent post:
In Ramallah yesterday President Bush declared there “should be an end to the [Israeli] occupation that began in 1967.” The Israeli military entered the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 to defeat the five Arab states that had conducted not one but two wars of aggression against the state of Israel -- the first in 1948 and the second in 1967. The purpose of both wars as stated by the Arab dictators was "to push the Jews into the sea."
According to international law, aggressors are to pay for their crimes. Israel had every right to annex the West Bank and Gaza (which had in fact been annexed by Jordan and Egypt after the 1948 war with no complaint from the so-called "Palestinians" or from any of the Arab states. Israel should have done just that and
expelled the Arab aggressors from Gaza and the West Bank. Jordan is a state which occupies 80% of the Palestine Mandate. That would have been the appropriate place to deposit people who had supported two genocidal aggressions. Twelve million Germans were expelled from East Prussia after the Second World War for example, for lesser crimes and the territory was made part of Poland.
Unfortunately, Israel didn't do that. The Israelis didn't realize they were dealing with barbaraians and therefore offered to withdraw if the Arab states would sign a peace recognizing the right of the Jewish state to exist. The Arabs refused. Under the "occupation" that followed the West Bank and Gaza thrived (relative to what came after under Palestinian rule). Industries were created, universities were built -- by the Israelis. When the Israeli military withdrew from Gaza in 2005, they left a horticulture industry built by Jews that accounted for 10% of Gaza's GNP. The first thing the barbaraians did was to destroy the greenhouses (because they were tainted by Jews) and to start firing 2000 rockets into Israeli schools and towns.
Now Bush wants the Israelis to give up more lands including a piece of Jerusalem, Israel's capital with the idea that the terrorists want to make peace, when in fact they will use this territory to launch new attacks on Israel until their dream is realized and Israel is destroyed. In fact, the Palestinian leader on the West Bank, the terrorist Mahmoud Abbas has said he won't recognize the Jewish state. This mind you is sixty years after the establishment of the Jewish state. What is Bush doing in the Middle East with peace partners like this? Hamas of course has sworn to obliterate the Jewish state. What Bush is doing is betraying his own war on terror. He is digging the grave of his own "legacy." This effort will blow up in his face as it blew up in Clinton's face in 2000. Hopefully, there won't be as many dead innocents resulting from the folly of Bush and Rice, but it would be foolish to count on it. .