May 19, 2008

HARDLY FAIR TO BLAME THE LEFT...:

Israel's 'doom' could also be Europe's (MARK STEYN, 5/10/08, OC Register)

The Western intellectuals who promote "Israeli Apartheid Week" at this time each year are laying the groundwork for the next stage of Zionist delegitimization. The talk of a "two-state solution" will fade. In the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, Jews are barely a majority. Gaza has one of the highest birth rates on the planet: The median age is 15.8 years. Its population is not just literally exploding, at Israeli checkpoints, but also doing so in the less-incendiary but demographically decisive sense.

Arabs will soon be demanding one democratic state – Jews and Muslims – from Jordan to the sea. And even those Western leaders who understand that this will mean the death of Israel will find themselves so confounded by the multicultural pieties of their own lands they'll be unable to argue against it. Contemporary Europeans are not exactly known for their moral courage: The reports one hears of schools quietly dropping the Holocaust from their classrooms because it offends their growing numbers of Muslim students suggest that even the pretense of "evenhandedness" in the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" will be long gone a decade hence.

The joke, of course, is that Israel, despite its demographic challenge, still enjoys a birth rate twice that of the European average. All the reasons for Israel's doom apply to Europe with bells on.


...when the neocons think they're being tough by fighting against the second state.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 19, 2008 6:37 PM
Comments

Steyn is merely explaining (albeit to those who will not listen or are who so blinded by their own omniscience regarding how things work) why there is no interest (!!), that is, intention, on the part of the Palestinians in a state side by side with Israel.

Why share something (or compromise) if you believe the other side doesn't deserve anything?

And why share (or compromise) if you believe that it's just a matter of time before your threats to annihilate your partner in peace come to fruition?

And why share (or compromise) when your partner in peace is the despicable Jew?

It's all a matter of time, inshallah.

Arafat was one smart dude. (Just ask Jimmy Carter.)

Posted by: Barry Meislin at May 20, 2008 1:57 AM

Yes, the Palestinians ought not share, since demographics will give them back the whole enchilada.

Posted by: oj at May 20, 2008 6:02 AM

By gosh, you've got it!!

Posted by: Barry Meislin at May 20, 2008 6:19 AM
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