Israeli-Arab Crisis Approaching

STRATFOR  "The U.N. decision raises the stakes in this debate within the Palestinian nation that could lead to intense conflict. As vicious as the battle between Hamas and Fatah has been, an uneasy truce has existed over recent years. Now, there could emerge an internationally legitimized state, and control of that state will matter more than ever before. Whoever controls the state defines what the Palestinians are, and it becomes increasingly difficult to suspend the argument for a temporary truce. Rather than settling anything, or putting Israel on the defensive, the vote will compel a Palestinian crisis."
Israeli-Arab Crisis Approaching is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

Related, and becoming more important: Modernize FISA, But Don't Hobble American Intelligence Operations:  "Congress should make the Protect America Act permanent and enhance its provisions to provide retroactive and permanent liability protection to American businesses that cooperate with reasonable intelligence requests. The House of Representatives should not impose unconstitutional restrictions on the ability of the executive branch to carry out one of its primary, constitutionally mandated functions: protecting Americans from acts of war by foreign enemies."

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From Atlas Shrugs: Perry's Pandering: "Much is being of Rick Perry's support of Israel, which is essential. Loving Israel is great but off topic.Bush loved Israel too, but ultimately did it harm in his concessions to Islamic supremacists.

"Anytime Muslims and Jews conflict, Jews get thrown under the bus. You cannot appease the annihilationists while supporting their target.

"We are vetting our candidate now. This is the process. We must voice our concerns now."

Caroline Glick: The Israeli Left's Faustian bargain 

"Arafat ended all pretence of good faith in the summer of 2000 when he rejected then prime minister Ehud Barak's offer of Palestinian statehood and instigated the Palestinian terror war. Ever since Arafat chose terror war over peace, his followers' willingness to admit they reject Israel's right to exists(sic) has grown."

Good grief; I can imagine the American left's fecklessness, but how can Israel's left be so obtuse? The rockets are falling on them! TD

Cartoon: Jerusalem Post

From Debbie Schlussel: HUH? Israel Apologizes; This is What “Peace” w/ Palestinian Muslims Looks Like  "And what will the apology get the Israelis?  Nothin’ (other than snickers).  In fact, the Egyptians won’t be nicer and are already saying the apology is “not enough.”  Egypt won’t stop more HAMAS and Fatah and Al-Qaeda terrorists from attacking Israel from the Sinai and entering Gaza from the Rafah gate. Nothing will get better.  It will only get worse.  And it has gotten worse.  HAMAS has been sending rockets over Israel non-stop, and after murdering people, has a temporary “cease-fire” . . . or as they call it in Islam, “relock and reload.” "

Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.’”  Ezekiel 37:1-14, NIV