…A featured speaker was Yuval Diskin, former head of the GSS who brainlessly said the absence of peace with the Ancient Ones was a greater threat to Israel than Iran’s A-bomb project.
And his bright idea was calling for an immediate building freeze beyond the Green Line as a gesture of “good will,” which won him a wave of enthusiastic applause. I heard about that and thought this is some of kind of political Alzheimer’s, a collective amnesia among otherwise intelligent people who seem to have forgotten the 10-month freeze that commenced four years ago in November 2009 which brought us nothing But then again, this was just more proof that this conflict is through and through wholly an unholy religious conflict. There are no “Palestinians” yearning for a state but Muslims incapable of letting Jews have one; and Jews like these Enlightened Tel-Aviv types who hate the communities in Judea and Samaria also for religious reasons; their hostility to the religion of the people they were born into, the only people whose religion created their nation… |