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<\/span>Arafat didn\u2019t even counteroffer \u2013 but unleashed waves of Palestinian terrorism that killed more than 1,000 innocents. Twenty-three years later, on October 7, we know what Hamas terrorists did to young and old, boys and girls, men and women, in a matter of hours \u2013 some of whom were \u201cpeaceniks\u201d who had spent lifetimes wooing their Gazan neighbors, also assuming that the Palestinians just wanted some reasonable compromise.<\/p>\n
Israelis have learned what happens when \u201cLet\u2019s Make a Deal\u201d faces \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d: the jihadists exploit Western naivet\u00e9, Americans toast the compromise while composing their Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches in their heads \u2013 and Jewish blood flows.<\/p>\n
After the 1990s Oslo peace process and Camp David, 2000, triggered 1,000 terrorist murders; after the 2005 Gaza disengagement caused more than 1,200 murders, as well as rapes and maimings in 2023, it\u2019s easy to understand why Israelis mistrust more negotiations \u2013 and resist rewarding Palestinian barbarity with another shot at statehood they\u2019ll try to use against us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s harder to understand how any self-respecting policy-maker, assessing the last 30 years, could approach Israelis repeating the same mantra, without adjusting, updating, acknowledging any lessons learned, then expect anything but \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n
STILL, FOR Jews, there\u2019s a silver lining in this red-white-and-blue cloud that blinds Americans from recognizing the fundamentalist evil defining much Palestinian political culture. When many try to bully Israel into silly solutions; blast Israel for defending itself; or call Israel\u2019s disciplined, morally-justified campaign of self-defense against Hamas \u201cgenocidal,\u201d the fickleness feels antisemitic. Fortunately for Jews \u2013 but unfortunately for the Free World \u2013 America\u2019s foolishness is clueless, not Judeophobic.<\/p>\n
Americans self-destructively keep their transactional blinders on against all kind of apocalyptic enemies. Barack Obama, and now Joe Biden, have long downplayed the Iranian regime\u2019s evil and chicanery, as America gets outfoxed, out-negotiated, out-played. That\u2019s why Obama disappointed the Iranian street during the aborted Green Revolution of 2009 \u2013 although he did admit 13 years later that his silence \u201cwas a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
More recently, Biden and his team have been irresponsibly soft on Iran \u2013 and Qatar \u2013 as America absorbs dozens of attacks from Iranian \u201cproxies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Iran and Qatar are far more vulnerable to American pressure than these cowardly dictators admit \u2013 and Americans realize.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is equally guileless regarding Russia\u2019s messianic megalomaniac, Vladimir Putin. In February 2017, then-president Trump said: \u201cI would love to be able to get along with Russia\u2026 I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff\u2026\u201d Presidents from both parties unknowingly encouraged Putin\u2019s aggression by underestimating his ruthlessness and overestimating their abilities to \u201cnegotiate\u2026 stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the 1930s, president Franklin Roosevelt also dreamed of being reasonable, transactional, and neutral \u2013 as godless but apocalyptic dictators spread their tentacles. Fortunately, FDR soon shifted before most Americans did. Still, only the Pearl Harbor surprise attack dragged America into that necessary war against totalitarianism.<\/p>\n
Shortly after that assault, FDR proclaimed: \u201cThere has never been \u2013 there never can be \u2013 a successful compromise between good and evil. Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most Israelis remain committed to fighting Hamas until we achieve \u201ctotal victory\u201d over their military capacity. We hope that even while seeking creative solutions for \u201cthe day after,\u201d our American friends don\u2019t forget that great Democratic president\u2019s message \u2013 \u201cThere never can be a successful compromise between good and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
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