There May Be A Peace With The PA On The West Bank, But Israel Will Never Achieve A Peace Treaty With Them

I saw Zbigniew Brzezinski expound on the Israeli-Palestinian problem the other day on "Morning Joe." He told one and all that, on their own, Israel and the Palestinians will never achieve peace. He's right, but for the wrong reason. His explanation is that Israel is too strong and the Palestinians are too weak. (As a consequence, the U.S. must impose a peace.)

A "peace" imposed by the a third party is no peace. Also, the odds are that Israel will get screwed.

The weakness of the Palestinians is that they can not free themselves from the Islamists. It's not merely the Islamists on their own turf, but Islamists in all the Islamic nations surrounding them. When Al Jazeera leaked on how far Abbas was prepared to go as regards Jerusalem, it caused such a hue and cry among the Arabs that Abbas had to duck.

Islamists will never accept a Jewish state. They certainly won't concede Jerusalem. And, they will demand that "Palestinians", regardless of when they, or their parents, or their grandparents, left Israel, Israel must allow them to return. Neither they, nor the Syrians, will accept the fact that when you launch a war and lose, you've lost. The Syrians want the Golan back. The Palestinians want the Israeli's to return to boarders of an earlier age. I have no idea what the Israelis will do, but to accede to Arab demands would be crazy.

America, and especially Pres. Obama, must realize, at some point, that the problems of the Middle East have nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein not because he was a Muslim, but because our allies (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and others) implored us to do so.

We went into Afghanistan, because the Taliban had given sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden, someone who had set in motion the destruction of the Twin Towers. And, now Pakistan is going to hell. They posit India as their main enemy. Why doesn't Obama impose a peace on Pakistan and India? Is it because peace simply can not be imposed?

But on Israel, everyone wants to impose a peace. Rockets from Gaza are fired at Israel, but Israel is not to retaliate. It's crazy.

Political correctness towards Islam is going to damage many more countries than just Israel. If someone who is Roman Catholic wants to get closer to God, he might become a priest. If a Jew wants to become more observant, he might move to Orthodoxy. But where does the Muslim go who wants to become more observant? He goes to Salafism. He begins to see non-Muslims as an impediment to Islam. Blasphemy becomes a crime before Allah. He wants Sharia. He wants the reestablishment of a Caliphate. Where does that leave the secular West, or, for that matter, the secular East? Israel is simply the nation that's at the point of the spear, but in truth all secular societies are enemies to the Islamists.