What Is This World Coming To?

By Ephraim Sneh

When demands are made of Israel to halt its military activities in Gaza, a brief historical reminder is in order.

In September 2005, Israel vacated Gaza, dismantled all the settlements in the Gaza Strip and did not leave a shred of a presence there.

In January 2006, rule over Gaza passed to the Hamas government under Ismail Haniyeh. Instead of bringing investors to Gaza, the Hamas government brought the guerrilla-warfare trainers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Instead of launching economic projects, this government launched rockets every day at Israeli towns and villages across the border. They smuggled in vast amounts of explosives, weapons and rockets; they prepared themselves for battle. Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama accused President Bush of “a false political attack” Thursday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists:

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Obama went ballistic, and then the Democrats went ballistic en masse. For the record, Bush didn’t mention Obama or the Democrats. He mentioned an unnamed senator of no particular party from 70 years ago, the Nazis, Poland, Hitler and appeasement.

Yet the entire Democratic establishment reacted as if Bush had called them by name. It appears a case of the wicked fleeing where no man pursueth, but maybe that’s just me. But I don’t think so.