Possibly the most important column Charles Krauthammer has ever written
. . . and that’s saying something, as you know. The point is that all “peace processes,” regardless of the Secretary of State or US President or UN official who spearheads it, are pointless. The other side has no interest in Israel’s continued existence.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Doth not Israel need to “accept” some things too? That they took land by force and now have to maintain it by same?
May 16th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
The United Nations gave them their original square mileage. It’s true that they took the Golan Heights in June 67, and they’d be fools to give it back, given that Syria wants to see Israel destroyed. So I don’t see that there’s anything for Israel to accept, other than that God’s cause has never had a majority of the human race on board.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
The United Nations gave them their original square mileage. It’s true that they took the Golan Heights in June 67, and they’d be fools to give it back, given that Syria wants to see Israel destroyed. So I don’t see that there’s anything for Israel to accept, other than that God’s cause has never had a majority of the human race on board.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Strange God to choose a special people by which the world, as we have come to know it, ends, for all practical purposes. I won’t get into his only begotten Son and how they view that matter. Not worth blowing the world up over, but, hey, it’s been the way of things for as long as humans have had opinions about the Great I Am. Some gather more followers than others with their opinions.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:40 am
God’s cause has dwindled to around 15 Million “souls” (who are largely secular) today. Of course there’s crazies of all ilk within Christianity that certainly seem to have a hard time (if they even care), adhering to that so-called Golden Rule. Two commandments, folks, for the past two millennia: love God and love your neighbor as yourself. But that’s just for 2 Billion Christians?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm
May 17th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
The little boy was drawing when his mother noticed and asked, “What are you drawing, Jimmy? The little boy, without looking up, answered, “A picture of God.” “But, Jimmy,” his mother replied, “Nobody knows what God looks like.” “They will once I’m finished.”
May 17th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
“Which is it–is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s blunders?” –Friedrich Nietzsche (Freedom hater or lover? And where his words twisted any more than those of the Nazarene?)
May 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The United Nations? Worthless body hereabouts.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Well, the UN has been on a downhill slide since its beginningsin the late 1940s - yes, to the point where it’s now worthless.
May 18th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Whether you have it before the war (conflagration?) or after it, there’s gonna be a peace process. I would have thought humanity might have begun to figure that out by now, but what do I know? Nothing. Maybe you don’t either.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
If it’s a real peace process, it will happen afterward. When the victor says to the defeated, “Okay, now here’s how things are going to be for you,” that’s when you have meaningful peace.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Yeah, kinda like that meaningful peace after WWII where we thought we owed the Ruskies something, like half of Europe and more. Strange bedfellows come out of war. Not that WW II was not necessary. I know you can’t wait to see some ass kickin’ again.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Potential Secy’ of State Lee Hamilton’s take:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080519/OPINION12/805190303/1002/OPINION
The continued expansion of settlements and outposts in the West Bank are roadblocks on the path to peace.
For the United States, a resolution to the conflict would deprive al-Qaida and its ilk of one their best recruiting tools — the perceived American indifference to the Palestinians’ travails.
Over the next 60 years, the U.S. and Israel will need each other to achieve lasting peace, security and prosperity to all those in the region who seek it. But Israel and its allies, among which the United States is proudly first and foremost have much to celebrate this month.