The Most Colossal Diplomatic Error

And what was that?

Well, read Bill Clinton about the people called "Palestinians":-

...I offered an agreement in great detail in 2000, and the then government of Israel headed by Ehud Barak took it, and the Palestinians basically didn't say yes or no, they continued their negotiation-by-non-negotiation strategy, in the most colossal diplomatic error in my lifetime.

Now, I know there are all these apologists [Richard Malley, for example - YM] who say there was something else going on. It's just not true. And there are people in Arafat's entourage, including Arafat, who told two Arab leaders they were going to take the deal. And he told me he was desperately determined to make a deal before I left office. Otherwise, it would be five years before he could take one.

And, instead, they took the bait and started the second intifada when Ariel Sharon went up on the Temple Mount. And we're living with it.

Some other things said:

Israel is different...There are now a million Israelis that they call from Russia...they're highly territorial, so that, on domestic political issues, they might vote left-of-center, but they don't think they ought to give up any land.

...Natan Sharansky, the great human rights activist, was in the Netanyahu Cabinet in 1998. When I made a deal with them at Wye River, Sharansky was the only one who wouldn't support it. He said, I come from the biggest country in the world to one of the smallest. And you, pointing at me, wish me to cut it in half. No thank you.

In other words, don't tell me about the history. Don't tell me about the Palestinians being here 2,000 years. Don't tell me about nothing. It's ours. Why should we give it up?

And this on security without Judea and Samaria:-

Do you remember when the missiles went from Gaza into Israel? There was a lot of sympathy when Israel said we're going to go clean that out. Keep in mind, there were a lot of missiles that killed a few people. One thing is that never changes is the trajectory of technology. It's only a matter of time when those missiles have GPS missiles on them. Then you have a few missiles killing a lot of people. No matter how good their security is, they may -- there may never be a time when they can fly 400 missiles again but now maybe they only need four for all hell to break loose.

So, if you consider those issues from an Israeli perspective, not CNN, not Clinton and not Obama, you'll understand that why Judea and Samaria will remain under Israeli administration or even sovereignty.



(Kippah tip: JW)


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