Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria will outlive all of us

In approximately 18 months Barack Obama may no longer be President, or
just a lame duck limping to January 2013.  At most, he would be
President for another 5 and half years.
During the same period, more thousands of Jews will continue being
added to the population of Judea and Samaria.  Since 1967, the
following people have passed away when G-d took them in His own good
time:  Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan.
During that same period, the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria,
including the areas of East Jerusalem liberated in June 1967, have
grown to 558,000 – 230,000 in Greater East Jerusalem and 328,000
throughout the rest of Yesha.  The numbers are on the way to reaching
a million.
Yitzchak Rabin had an Oslo plan to withdraw from Yesha, and he
tragically was assassinated.  Shimon Peres thereupon entered as
Israeli Prime Minister with a higher than 90% poll rating, and assured
everyone that he would complete the process of withdrawing.  Yet, in
an unforeseen short period, an outbreak of Arab bus bombings wiped out
his support, and he lost office to Binyamin Netanyahu.  After Bibi
compromised on Hebron at the Wye Conference, his stellar polls
suddenly plummeted south, and he was ousted by Ehud Barak.  Barak,
touted as “Mr. Security,” proceeded to withdraw unilaterally from
South Lebanon, creating a vacuum soon filled by Hezbollah, and then
worked with Bill Clinton to prepare a complete withdrawal from
virtually all of Judea and Samaria.  Miraculously, Arafat turned him
down, started an Intifada, and Barak lost the government to Ariel
Sharon in a landslide.  Sharon unilaterally withdrew from Gaza,
creating a vacuum soon filled by Hamas, and then turned his attention
“kadimah” (eastward) to withdrawing from Judea and Samaria.  And
suddenly, just in the blink of an eye, he sustained a stroke that has
left him in a coma for years.  Ehud Olmert followed him with the
promise to complete the withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.  Suddenly,
however, a war erupted in Southern Lebanon, and Olmert’s military
miscalculations and failures, augmented by the incompetence of a
Defense Minister with no meaningful qualifications other than being a
union organizer who rose to head the Labor Party, obliterated his
authority.  Stymied by the scandal of war, Olmert eventually recouped
over some time and again began to work towards withdrawing from Judea
and Samaria, until financial scandals suddenly erupted and forced him
out.  Next came Tzippi Livni, and she was voted out soon after.  And
now Netanyahu again.
Nothing seems to have prevented Israel from withdrawing from the
Sinai, from Southern Lebanon, or from Gaza. By contrast, everything –
the logical, the inexplicable, and yes the miraculous – repeatedly has
prevented a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.  During that same
period, Nixon had the Rogers Plan.  Nixon is dead, and Rogers is
dead.  Ford came up with the Reassessment Plan.  Ford is dead.  Jimmy
Carter has done everything imaginable to advance the cause of Hamas
and Fatah.  As President, he pushed Israel until he remarkably was
overwhelmed by 19% inflation, Iranian hostages and a botched rescue
mission, and Soviet progression throughout Asia, Africa, and South
America.  Israel got a bit of a remission during the Reagan Years,
particularly with Secretaries of State Alexander Haig and George
Shultz.  Then George H.W. Bush came in, reached 90% popularity with
the Desert Storm Kuwait War, turned his attention to pressing Israel
under an anti-Semitic James Baker and even condemned American Jews for
lobbying in Washington for Israel, and his poll numbers disappeared
overnight, as the economy up-ended and as he was caught on camera in
all his human mortality vomiting at a dinner in Japan.  Bill Clinton
came in, invited Arafat to the White House more than any other Clinton
White House visitor, pressed Ehud Barak to give up Judea and Samaria,
including most of East Jerusalem, and somehow saw it all fizzle as
Arafat rejected the offers and as the Clinton White House unexpectedly
became consumed with its own survival as scandals upin scandals began
erupting.  George W. Bush came in, supported Israel initially as no
President before had done, and enjoyed stellar poll numbers, even
expanding his party’s leads in the first bi-elections and then winning
reelection.  As he turned during his second term to pressing Israel,
under his “Road Map,” to give up Judea and Samaria, the American
economy inexplicably collapsed overnight, eradicating his poll numbers
and wiping out his party.  And now Barack Obama.  Obama came in with
excellent poll numbers, rapidly moved towards pressing Israel to halt
all construction in Judea and Samaria, and heaped the onus for Mideast
problems on Israel, even traveling throughout the Arab world on an
Apology Tour, making that speech in Egypt and pressing Israel to
retreat from Judea and Samaria.  As the pressure grew on Israel to
withdraw, even with White House snubs of Netanyahu, suddenly the oil
well inexplicably blew in the Gulf of Mexico.  And now, as he has
unfolded his new Mideast speech, the Mississippi crests as housing
starts recede, joblessness sits at 9 percent, gasoline moves beyond $4
a gallon, all before and leading up to the speech.
As all experienced public speakers know, sometimes a one-hour speech
is significant for the two or four sentences buried within the
hundreds of other sentences.  The entire speech today was crafted
around those few sentences in the end, calling on Israel to squeeze
itself back to the 1967 borders.  A cursory look at all the newsmedia
reports of the Obama speech confirms that each and every news analyst
understood that the key points of the speech were Obama’s call for
Israel to return to the 1967 borders, with minor land-swap adjustments
– essentially the proposal that Ehud Barak offered to Arafat, long
since rejected by Israelis and by Arabs in Judea and Samaria, as well
as by those in Hamas Gaza. All the talk about demilitarizing and
assuring and guaranteeing that weapons will not infiltrate into such
an Arab Judea-Samaria are ridiculed and amply countered by the massive
rearming of Hezbollah in South Lebanon under the noses of the UNIFIL
forces and the rearming of Hamas in Gaza since the Goldstone War.  If
the past half century has taught anything, it has taught that Israel
will not withdraw from Judea or Samaria unless a higher power than
those in the White House or the Knesset agree and that the Jewish
communities of Judea and Samaria will outlive all of us, including
those now in the White House and the Israeli Prime Minister’s
residence.
http://tinyurl.com/3j7xf46

 a million.
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