Talking With Terrorists-Israel’s Stand Against Palestine
U.S. treatment of Israel over the course of the last twenty years has been anything but realistic; Vice President Biden’s condemnation of Israel’s recent decision to expand its borders by allowing building permits in East Jerusalem, demonstrates just how out of touch with reality many politicians truly are. Due in part to forced concessions of peace from the Bush administration, Israel spent a large part of the first decade withdrawing from the Palestinian Frontier, and practicing a defensive posture. In response to Israel’s attempts at peace, Palestine unleashed the second intafada, in which over one thousand Israeli’s were murdered in terrorist attacks. Consequently, Israel’s current prime, Benjamin Netanyahu, has decided that the best defense is a good offense, and begun once more to expand Israel’s borders in the hopes of swallowing up the Palestinian threat. While Israel is a far cry from a perfect republic, it provides a stark contrast to it’s lawless Palestinian neighbor. Insistence by U.S. officials that Israel return to the negotiations table ignores the last decade of history. If Israel is to survive, it must, like any other nation, defend itself from terrorism.
The No-Bull Prize: 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009; the President of the United States became the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner through a committee vote.? Alfred Nobel stipulated in his will that the peace prize should be awarded ?to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.?? The Nobel committee cited President Obama as deserving of the award ?for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.??
The first question to escape the lips of many people when the announcement was made was, ?for what??? Surely it is no shock to the diligent observer that the committee would award it to someone who has yet to accomplish anything truly substantive (I am not saying that he won?t), when we cannot forget the fact that President Obama was nominated a mere two weeks after he was inaugurated.? Again, ?for what??? Giving the Nobel Peace prize to President Obama before he has even done anything is like the NFL awarding Tony Romo the MVP for the 2009-2010 season.? I think both Romo’s start to the season, and President Obama’s start to his presidency, warrant the parallel.?
To be honest, the Nobel prize has proven itself less and less relevant and less and less capable of understanding the world as it is.? Instead of awarding true innovators, or people with the drive or spirited attempt to?change the world for the better, right wrongs and free people; the Nobel has been bastardized to mean nothing more than what?a New York Timesendorsement means to elections.? Everyone knows it?s going to someone who adheres to the conformity of the worldy leftist-geist and will rarely if ever adorn the garb of someone who has actually made a principled stand against evil in the world.? ??
-rj
