REALITY INTRUDES – AT 9:09 A.M. ET:  Argentinian reader Susana Kohan alerts us to today's column by George Will, commenting on the Mideast.  Remember that face-to-face "peace talks" begin next week between the Israelis and the Palestinians.  But Will's portrait of "Palestine" gives us no hope for encouragement:

Israelis can watch West Bank Palestinian television incessantly inculcating anti-Semitism and denial of Israel's right to exist. Across the fence that has substantially reduced terrorism from the West Bank, Israelis see Ramallah, where Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, lives and where a square was recently named in honor of Dalal Mughrabi. In 1978, she, together with 11 other terrorists, hijacked an Israeli bus and massacred 37 Israelis and one American. Cigarette lighters sold on the West Bank show, when lit, the World Trade Center burning.

Please note that last sentence.  After September 11, 2001, in an act of pure corruption, most of the American press suppressed pictures of Arabs dancing in the streets at the murder of 3,000 souls.  It didn't fit the leftist party line.  Maybe we should ask the mosque builders at Ground Zero about this. 

And consider this:

The Obama administration, which seems to consider itself too talented to bother with anything but "comprehensive" solutions to problems, may yet make matters worse by presenting its own plan for a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem. Barack Obama insists that it is "costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure," although he does not say how. Gen. David Petraeus says Israeli-Palestinian tensions "have an enormous effect on the strategic context." As though, were the tensions to subside, the hard men managing Iran's decades-long drive for nuclear weapons would then say, "Oh, well, in that case, let's call the whole thing off."

Some common sense from George Will.  But our "Muslim outreach" president undoubtedly has his own ideas.  Does anyone doubt where his multicultural heart lies? 

The Arab-Israeli conflict will not be solved until the Arabs are reconciled to Israel's existence, and our dispute with the Islamic world will not be solved until Islam recognizes that it will not be permitted to take over our cultures and values.  That will take some work on our part, however, and I don't see that work being done.  It's not considered chic or "progressive" by our elites.

August 26, 2010