November 28, 2005

HUH?:

The leftist Bush should appreciate (Jo-Ann Mort, November 27, 2005, LA Times)

ISRAELI PRIME Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to break from the conservative Likud Party he created to form a new party is the latest in a series of electoral tremors that began when Amir Peretz beat Shimon Peres for chairman of Israel's Labor Party and redefined the nation's peace camp.

President Bush and his foreign policy aides are much more comfortable with Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu, the probable new Likud leader, than with Peretz.

Too bad, because Peretz is more likely to bring peace to Israel. [...]

A victorious Peretz in next spring's parliamentary elections would be the Bush administration's best hope for moving Israel toward a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians.


The only justification for such idiocy would be that Ms Mort has been in a coma since June 24. 2002, when President Bush effectively ended the policy of negotiating with the Palestinians and gave Ariel Sharon the green light to unilaterally impose a settlement, a transformation that has already brought peace. Restarting "peace talks" would just take the Palestinian leadership off the hook.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 28, 2005 4:21 PM
Comments

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The realists are sleeping.

Posted by: Luciferous at November 28, 2005 4:45 PM

Even those on the left who are not inclined to be very sympathetic to the Palestinians' causes are driven crazy by the fact all that's happened in the Arab-Israeli situation in the past five years has occured with them completely on the sideline. Most of what I've read about Peretz makes him sound like Labor's answer to Walter Mondale, but he's mostly a blank slate on the world scene right now, so Mort feels free to paint the most flattering picture possible about his abilities right now in hopes by doing so it will someday come true.


Posted by: John at November 28, 2005 10:22 PM

Don't these moonbats realize that the "negotiations" have been over for quite some time?

From what I have read, all that Peretz will bring to Israel is internal weakness.

Posted by: jim hamlen at November 28, 2005 10:58 PM

. . . and pure unadulterated socialism!

Posted by: obc at November 28, 2005 11:44 PM
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