Israel after the Flotilla Debacle

Dov Fischer
American Thinker
03 June '10

Maybe this is the wake-up call that Israel needs before acquiescing to a "Two-State Solution."

In the aftermath of the Flotilla Debacle, Israel finds herself mired in an unmitigated public relations conundrum. She was backed into a corner by clever propagandists, Hamas supporters, anti-Zionist extremist NGOs, hostile neighbors including an increasingly radicalized Turkish government, and a liberationist Left that invariably roots for the wrong underdog.

Israel encountered the Flotilla Debacle because she rightfully was blockading Gaza from acquiring new boatloads of weapons. For years, the Arabs of Gaza surreptitiously have obtained rockets, grenades, and anti-tank missiles, in attempts by land and by sea, for the purpose of destroying their Jewish neighbor. As a terrorist polity run by actual murderers who seized power from other terrorists by killing them, Hamas-run Gaza should be blockaded. Their other neighbor, Moslem Egypt, has blockaded Gaza, too.

Israel must blockade Gaza because Hamas uses its polity to acquire weapons to destroy Jews across their common border, in towns like Sderot and in cities like Ashkelon and Ashdod. Hamas enjoys that power because her terrorists seized Gaza from Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah organization, which previously had ruled both "halves" of the "Palestine Authority" -- the "West Bank," which Abbas and Fatah still control, and Gaza. Abbas and Fatah initially came into their control because Yasser Arafat received a new political entity, a "Palestine Authority," as part of the Oslo Accords of 1993. In the Oslo Accords, which won Nobel Peace Prizes for Arafat, for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, and for his predecessor Shimon Peres, Israel agreed to cede governance over those two regions in return for Palestinian Arab pledges of a new era marked by civility and renewed understanding between and among people searching for peaceful coexistence.

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