Think Again: Why the Palestinians can’t dance, in Obama’s own words

[Fozzledick]

Obama’s own analysis leads to the conclusion that peace will not be had with the Palestinians because their goals are not those of Western liberals seeking a slightly larger slice of the pie.


It takes two to tango, and Obama’s own words make clear why the Palestinians can’t dance. Though the president will never refer publicly to the problem of Islam, lest he fan anti-Muslim sentiments, in Goldberg’s telling he is perfectly forthright with other world leaders: there will be no solution to Islamic terrorism until Islam reconciles itself to modernity. For that, Muslims themselves will require a vigorous internal discussion. None is on the horizon.

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And for precisely the reasons given by Obama, a Palestinian state in the West Bank would quickly degenerate into a failed state and terrorist haven. Institutions of civil society remain weak, and clan and tribal identity high. Civil war broke out in Gaza soon after the Israeli withdrawal, and the same would happen in the West Bank. And as a consequence, the West Bank would become a terrorist haven, as has Gaza, where vast, vitally needed resources are still dedicated to waging war on Israel.

Palestinian society fits Obama’s description of Arab countries in general: it is characterized by a “violent, extremist ideology or ideologies, turbocharged through social media” – indeed, in the Palestinians’ case, turbocharged by the official media and education system.

In short, Obama’s own analysis leads inexorably to the conclusion that peace will not be had with the Palestinians because their goals are not those of Western liberals seeking a slightly larger slice of the pie. They seek not a state – that they could long ago have had – but the end of the alien one next door.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Think-Again-Why-the-Palestinians-cant-dance-in-Obamas-own-words-455019

[shira]

1. The Hamas fan club won't like this. They'll call Obama a rightwinger for sure. n/t

[leftynyc]

2. Get ready to get slammed

First by those who will attack the source (but think 972mag is legitimate) and then by those who like to pretend the Israeli's have a partner in peace when it's been obvious for 68 years they have no such thing.

[Little Tich]

3. The author of the OP is a gay-basher, among other things:

Think Again: A plague on both your houses
Source: Jerusalem Post, by Jonathan Rosenblum, 11/16/2006

My greatest wrath is saved for those who have done inestimable damage to the image of Torah.

Last week's scheduled Gay Pride parade provoked in me, at least, the response, "A plague on all your houses." Why, I wonder, did the homosexuals find it so important to flaunt their sexual practices in public, and especially in Judaism's holy city? No one is interfering with the pursuit of their private pleasures or threatening their public gathering spots. Twice in the past 18 months, an international bacchanal scheduled for Jerusalem had to be canceled - the first time because of the trauma of the Gaza withdrawal and most recently because of the war in Lebanon. And last week's scheduled parade was downgraded to a rally, at least in part because the tragic artillery hit on civilians in Beit Hanun required the redeployment of security forces around the country. Yet after each cancellation, the sponsors are immediately back planning the next parade, thereby raising suspicions that it is more recruitment drive than civil rights march. That may explain why so much of the opposition to the march has been led by mothers concerned with protecting teenage sons whose sexual identity is still in flux. The Supreme Court also had its share in the violence that preceded the scheduled march. For years, the court has encouraged the resort to violence as a means of getting one's way.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Think-Again-A-plague-on-both-your-houses

Note: Hateful speech in post intended to illustrate prejudice only.