Saturday, January 19, 2008

Generations of failure at Middle East peace

Hezbollah leader comes out of hiding and announces he has possession of the body parts of Israeli soldiers in a rally that drew a million supporters. That sounds like a rally that Israel should have attacked. This shows what's wrong with the international community and its limited view of the war on terror. Anybody going to a rally supporting Hezbollah is a terrorist supporter, and Israel has the responsibility to protect its citizens from them. Since the international community is not willing to stop the terrorists, it should acknowledge the terrorist supporters as terrorists themselves, and Israel should to take them out. Allowing these terrorists to act with impunity is what halts the peace process.

Our peace process is a travesty, and has been for generations. The first step to peace in the middle east is the disarmament of Hamas and Hezbollah. Those groups don't want a settlement with Israel, and as long as they're armed, peace there will be no peace. So any road map to peace must start with disarming Hamas and Hezbollah (and other, lessor terrorists groups).

The US should attempt to organize an Arab anti-terrorist force. First we should get our Arab allies to acknowledge Israel's right of self-defense. Then we should make our supposed allies in the region decide between taking action for peace or allowing Israel to act in its own defense. If our Arab allies refuse to create an anti-terrorist force to disarm Hamas and Hezbollah, then they have to take responsibility for their failure to act when Israel disarms those groups.

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