"Demography, Ideology and Technology"

JINSA Report
#: 1,008
21 July '10

Maybe it was just stylistic; maybe it was more. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro's speech touting the United States as Israel's best friend repeated itself:

Israel's future as a secure, Jewish, and democratic state is under threat from the dynamics of demography, ideology, and technology.

The dynamics of ideology, technology, and demography in the region mean that this continuing conflict poses serious challenges to Israel's long-term security and its future as a Jewish and democratic state.

Therefore, Shapiro said, "We believe that through good faith negotiations, the parties can mutually agree on an outcome which ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable state based on the 1967 lines with agreed swaps, and the Israeli goal of a Jewish state with secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments and meet Israeli security requirements."

[Dispense quickly with his interpretation of Palestinian goals. No Palestinian leader has said that the Palestinian goal is the '67 line with agreed swaps. Only Americans say that. The one agenda item on which Hamas and Fatah agree is that the recognition of Israel was a mistake by the international community - and that the mistake has to be corrected by the state's disestablishment, though they differ on the necessary method and the government that will follow.]

"Demography, ideology and technology" is a sloppy, non-specific suggestion that the progress of life itself threatens Israel. But specifically what threatens Israel is the continuing unwillingness of (almost all) Arab states plus Iran and several non-state terrorist organizations to accept the legitimacy of Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. Arab and Muslim rejectionists use oil money (as well as American aid in the case of the Palestinians and the LAF, the Lebanese Armed Forces) to buy weapons, training and technology from the United States, Europe, Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan in hopes of carrying out their intention to turn back the clock. They use media that is alternately willing and naïve - and often state-sponsored - and a UN that is corrupt and venal, to advance their agenda.

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