By Ron BreimanWe do not know what Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu will say to U.S. President Barack Obama during their first meeting, but let us hope that it will be something along the following lines:
You and I are at the outset of our terms of office. The expectations are sky-high, and the disappointments are liable to be equally great. Some people in Israel expect you to intervene in Israel's relations with the Arabs, both those living in the Land of Israel and in neighboring countries, while others expect you to refrain from intervening and to respect Israel's sovereignty and interests.
Mr. President, the basic condition for your success requires abandoning the assumption that the western part of the Land of Israel, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, which covers only 22 percent of the original Mandatory Palestine, is amenable to partition. This is a single geopolitical unit; there is no room for two states.
Permit me to draw your attention to your predecessors in office, presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who both lent a hand, even if in retrospect, to dangerous processes which, though they began in Israel, also affected important American interests. The first is the "peace process," whose origins lie in Oslo. The Oslo hallucinators took Clinton by surprise and persuaded him to oversee a dangerous and dubious agreement signed by Israel with Yasser Arafat's terrorist organization.
Clinton's eight-year presidency was almost concurrent with the years between the shameful signing of the Oslo agreement in September of 1993, and the Oslo war - the agreement's inevitable outcome - launched in September of 2000 by the "Palestinian Terror Authority."
The other dangerous processes were president Bush's "two-state vision" and prime minister Ariel Sharon's "disengagement." The result of expelling Jews from their homes in their own land - an act neither Jewish, democratic nor moral - was equally predictable and equally inevitable: a war in Gaza against the Palestinian enemy headed by Hamas, an organization that was elected by the Palestinians themselves and reflects the will of the majority.
Since 1993, Israel's leaders have cultivated the lies that peace depends on the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the western Land of Israel, and that a difference exists between the goals of Hamas and the "Palestinian Terror Authority." Even though the fraud is overt and bleeding, the Israeli left refuses to accept responsibility for the wars it engendered, and the rest of the world, after all, cannot be more Zionist than Israel's leaders. The danger that threatens you, Mr. President, is that you, too, will be tempted to believe these lies. But you promised change.
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