I’ll assume you’ve all been reading the papers:

“Israel offers full peace talks with Lebanon” (rejected) With Syria. A cease-fire with Hamas (we’ll see how long it lasts). Talks with Abbas to return the ‘West Bank’ to ‘Palestinian’ rule, whenever that was (hint: never). With all these overtures to loose itself of territory obtained through defensive wars, you’d think Olmert thought the country was on fire and he was just trying to put it out.

The media pushed this down everyones throat as the ONLY solution to piece…I mean peace. This article, by Yair Lapid, is particularly annoying, representative of the defeatist sentiment that seems to pervade the “peace-seeking” reporters in Israel. ‘Israel wants everything but doesn’t want to give up anything.’ ‘Our enemies are right, we are wrong.’ He basically accuses anyone who disagrees with him of “magical thinking”, and the only way to remedy this is to basically give up. THEN there will be peace.

Why bring this up? I just wanted to post a quote from a commentator on YNET from Israel who always answers articles like this with intelligence, debunking this type of surrender thinking.

“The Wishful-Thinkers Brigade of unrealistic, delusional, utopians who think that just by wanting peace, it will happen. Of course, they are willing to make any concession, cede any territory, damage our security – pay any price, in effect, while continuing to forget all the many failures of the past, while ignoring the very nature of our adversaries, while living in denial that our country could cease to exist because of their unrealistic beliefs. Talk about child-like thinking ….

And on the subject of paying a price, why are we the only ones asked to pay a price? In case no one remembers, WE won the various wars after being attacked. We are not the ones to pay any price – in the real world, defeated enemies pay the price. We must be the only country in the world who wins wars but acts as if we lost.

And I’ll offer a further comment – much of the seeming confusion in the polls is caused by the relentless propaganda in the left-oriented media, by the idiotic speeches of many of our politicians, by the poor quality of education, & by the apathy & complacency of an Israeli public rapidly finding the superficial joys of consumerism.

You’ll pardon my lack of political correctness, but logic tells me that we must make our enemies pay a price, over & over, if necessary & that this is the only realistic strategy for achieving an eventual better future.”

Terry , Eilat, Israel (06.20.08)

Nuff said. Your thoughts?

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