The "dramatic imminent shift" that isn't

Rick Richman makes not only an important point but a Great List, worth saving:

The Israeli Elections and Political Reality

David Horovitz, editor of the Times of Israel, writes that there will likely be “a different Israel” after the January 22 election – one that has voted to reject a Palestinian state. He attributes the “dramatic imminent shift” ... to a right that has become “far-right.”

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The “dramatic imminent shift” is not a shift, but a realization; not imminent, but rather what happened over many years; and not dramatic, but rather the slow accumulation of many events:

(1) the barbaric terror war against Israeli civilians, commenced after the first Israeli offer of a state;

(2) the Palestinian rejection of the Clinton Parameters, after Israel formally accepted them;

(3) the Palestinian failure to carry out even Phase I of the three-phase Roadmap;

(4) the transformation of Gaza into Hamastan after Israel withdrew every settler and soldier;

(5) the election of Hamas in 2006 and the Hamas coup in 2007;

(6) two rocket wars from Judenrein Gaza, and the continuing prospect of more;

(7) the year-long negotiation in the Annapolis Process that produced still another offer of a state, from which Abbas walked away;

(8) Abbas’s announcement in 2009 that he would do nothing without a construction freeze, followed by his doing nothing after he got one;

(9) the continual “reconciliation” attempts by Abbas with the terrorist group he promised to dismantle;

(10) his failure to give a Bir Zeit speech to match Netanyahu’s Bar-Ilan one;

(11) the inability of the Palestinians to hold an election, much less build the institutions of a peaceful democratic state;

(12) the violation of their express Oslo commitments with repeated end-runs at the UN;

(13) a Palestinian society, media and educational system steeped in anti-Semitism;

(14) et cetera.

It's too late now, but when I posted the link for this article on facebook, I took the liberty of suggesting a different title: "Israel Gets Real." It occurs to me that I could have used that here, but I can never figure out what to say in subject lines and headings... 

Ah well, have a Good Shabbes and may we all do better in the new week  -- and new month! 

 

 

Comments

[Elan]

You had a better format and better title, and thank you for those two links; you may the only one who understood the reference to the Bir Zeit speech!