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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - March 30, 2010
Bibi's Hollow Victory
by Pat Buchanan
"The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years
ago, and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today.
Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital."
With this defiant declaration, to a thunderous ovation at
AIPAC, Benjamin Netanyahu informed the United States that
East Jerusalem, taken from Jordan in the Six Day War, is
not occupied land. It is Israeli land and Israel's forever,
and no Palestinian state will share Jerusalem. Israel alone
decides what is built, and where, in the Holy City.
With his declaration and refusal to walk back the decision
to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, which
blew up the Biden mission, "Bibi" goes home a winner over
Barack Obama.
But it is a temporary triumph and hollow victory -- over
Israel's indispensable ally. For the clash revealed that
the perceived vital interests of Israel now collide with
vital U.S. interest in the Middle East.
We have clarity. There is now visible daylight between U.S.
and Israeli policy for all the world to see. And America
cannot back down without eviscerating her credibility in
the Arab and Muslim world
What are the major points of contention?
To Netanyahu, withdrawal from Gaza was a strategic blunder
that led to a Hamas takeover and rockets on Israel. That
blunder will not be repeated with the West Bank. Israel
had a hellish time forcing 8,000 Jews to leave Gaza and
will not force 250,000 Jews to leave ancestral lands on
the West Bank to create a Palestinian state where the
possibility will always exist that Hamas will win at the
ballot box and become the government. As for Jerusalem,
its city limits are now Israel's permanent borders.
Annexation is irreversible.
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The American position?
The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is occupied
territory. Building there violates international law. Peace
requires a sharing of Jerusalem, return of almost all of
the West Bank and withdrawal of the Jewish settlers. And
any land annexed by Israel must be compensated for with
Israeli land ceded to the Palestinians.
That the U.S. position is not anti-Israel is attested to
by the fact that Prime Ministers Ehud Barack and Ehud
Olmert came close to a peace with the Palestinians based
on these principles.
Netanyahu, however, does not accept them. For he won office
denouncing them, and in his ruling coalition are parties
that not only opposed withdrawal from Gaza, they oppose a
Palestinian state.
Given the irreconcilable positions, the deadlock, why
will Israel not prevail as she always prevails in such
collisions? Why would Bibi's "No" to Obama's demand for
a halt to the building of settlements and a cancellation
of the 1,600 housing units in Jerusalem not be the final
and irrevocable answer that Obama must grudgingly accept?
Answer: There is a new party to the quarrel: the U.S.
military, in the person of Gen. David Petraeus.
According to Foreign Policy magazine, in January, a
delegation of senior officers from Petraeus' command
were sent to brief Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Adm. Michael Mullen.
"The briefers reported that there was a growing perception
among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing
up to Israel, that CentCom's mostly Arab constituency was
losing faith in American promises, that Israel's intransi-
gence on the Arab-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing
U.S. standing in the region, and that (George) Mitchell
himself was... 'too old, too slow and too late.'"
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Mullen took this stark message -- that America was seen
as too weak to stand up to Israel, and the U.S. military
posture was eroding in the Arab world as a result --
straight to the White House. Hence, when Joe Biden was
sandbagged in Israel, he apparently tore into Bibi in
private.
"This is starting to get dangerous for us," Biden reported-
ly told Netanyahu. "What you're doing here undermines the
security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Yedioth Ahronoth further reported: "The vice president
told his Israeli hosts that since many people in the Muslim
world perceived a connection between Israel's actions
and U.S. policy, any decision about construction that
undermines Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem could have
an impact on the personal safety of American troops."
Biden was saying Israeli intransigence could cost American
lives.
Each new report of settlement expansion, each new seizure
of Palestinian property, each new West Bank clash between
Palestinians and Israeli troops inflames the Arab street,
humiliates our Arab allies, exposes America as a weakling
that cannot stand up to Israel, and imperils our troops
and their mission in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As this message has now been delivered by Gen. Petraeus
to his commander in chief, Obama simply cannot back down
again. If he does not stand up now for U.S. interests,
which are being imperiled by Israeli actions, he will
lose the backing of his soldiers.
U.S.-Israeli relations are approaching a "Whose side are
you on?" moment. Either Bibi backs down this time -- or
Obama loses his soldiers.
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