There are now in fact not one, but two, treasonous private "peace initiatives" being promoted by the Israeli fundamentalist Left, somewhat comically competing against one another. There is the Beilin Geneva Misunderstandings, which is being bulk mailed to Israeli households this week in defiance of a proposal last week by the Consumers Union to prohibit junk mail. And then there is the "initiative" by ex-spook Ami Ayalon, who once headed Israeli intelligence services (never mind the oxymoron in that term) and before that was Navy Commandant, together with a PLO terrorist.
This past weekend, Yediot Acharonot, the largest Israeli daily, carried a group interview with four of the ex-heads of the intelligence agencies, Ami Ayalon and three others. All four are fundamentalist leftists and all four endorsed Ayalon's "initiative". My guess is that if there ever really will be a state of Palestine, it will issue stamps with the mugs of the four ex-spooks who served Palestinian interests so faithfully.
Future historians are going to have a great deal of difficulty in explaining how Israel could possibly have been overcome with mass stupidity to the extent that it has been, or how Israel could still have been pursuing accords and deals with the PLO ten years after Oslo.
A large part of the answer will have to do with the complete failure of Israeli intelligence services to provide intelligence and to fulfill their assigned role. Instead, the intelligence services have long been dominated by leftists and Peres poodles repeating the mindless political mantras of Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin. From the very start of Oslo, the intelligence services refused to examine the question of what the PLO's intentions were, what its agenda was, whether it was going to comply with Oslo. The intelligence services simply accepted Peres' assurances that the PLO was truly interested in peace, and so, the "peace partner" role assigned the PLO by the Left was its only working axiom. At the start of Oslo, the intelligence agencies disbanded their networks of informers among the Palestinians and turned them over to the tender mercies of the PLO, which murdered and tortured them. Israel's Left denounced these informers, who had saved many a Jewish life, as "traitors to their own people". (Can you imagine Americans in 1945 denouncing as traitors to their own people those Germans who had served as informants for Allied forces and helped defeat the Reich?)
In part, the problem is the same as the problem of leftist domination of the senior military ranks in general in Israel. Because senior brass retire in their 40's and need to be set up for a cushy second career, they are dependent on the politicians, and so, they have toed the leftist line to assure the good graces of the political Left. After all, Labor has run the government more often than Likud, and in any case, the main goal of the Likud, whenever it has been in office, has always been to help the Labor Party get re-elected. (Just look at the decision taken, under a Likud government, to prosecute the owners of the Arutz-7 "pirate" radio station and to seek to sentence them to very long periods in prison.)
The intelligence services have also long been Beilinized. A rare exception was General Yaakov Amidror, a religious Jew who ran military intelligence until he had his career blocked by the political establishment. He was not only skeptical of Oslo. He has a guest Op-Ed in Haaretz on November 19, 2003, denouncing the Beilin Misunderstandings. He states that under Beilin's plan, the PLO will be able to move tank columns across the Negev with no possibility for Israel to stop them. The Jerusalem Post reported Friday that Beilin had promised the PLO the "German Colony" neighborhood in New or Western Jerusalem, not only all of East Jerusalem. (For Hebrew readers, the full article by Amidror is at Haaretz.co.il). If the rule of leftist fundamentalists running Israeli intelligence sounds strange to you, by the way, take a look at Prof. Angelo Codevilla's seminal book on how leftism dominates the CIA (www.fetchbook.info/search_0743244842/tab_editions.html). Codevilla is one of the great minds in the United States today.
As for the four ex-intelligence buffoons who gave a long interview for the weekend Yediot, the only thing of value from that interview is a vivid image of why Israel has been pushed to the brink of destruction. If such people direct Israeli intelligence services, the country will not survive.
Last evening, the TV documentary show hosted by Ilana Dayan showed a long video tape taken of the "negotiations" between the team of mindless leftists accompanying Yossi Beilin to Geneva and the PLO terrorhoids. The tape spoke for itself and, wisely, Dayan just let it run and let people make up their own minds. It might have been entitled ?How Learning Disabled Kindergarten Children From a Kibbutz Can Negotiate a Peace Settlement?.
After the tape, Dayan interviewed one of the leftist fundamentalist ex-spooks. Here are some citations from that interview, as they appeared in today's Haaretz:
?Avraham Shalom, the Shin Bet chief forced to resign in the 1980s because of the Bus 300 affair, made an unprecedented TV appearance Tuesday evening....
?Shalom...[announced] that he was signing the Ayalon-Nusseibeh petition, and [warned]... Israel's ?humiliation? of the Palestinians was no way to fight terror....
?He said he is worried about what is happening to Israel as a ?conquering occupying nation. We've become professional occupiers, not paying any attention to what is happening to the other side. I'm not talking about the war on terror. I am talking about how we treat the other side.?
?He said that ?of course we should arrest the terrorists... but there's no reason to make people strip at a checkpoint and there's no reason to stop an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman about to give birth.?
?Asked if he believes the Palestinians enough to strike a deal with them, Shalom said ?We're two peoples living on the same land and if we can't learn to trust one another, there will only be chaos here and nobody will be able to live here.??
Actually, that is not an accurate citation. I heard the interview, and he said ?I have to believe in the peaceful intentions of the PLO, because, if not, there will be no one to make peace with.? Welcome to the Israeli University of Duh.
No doubt Neville Chamberlain said the same thing about Hitler.
This past weekend, Yediot Acharonot, the largest Israeli daily, carried a group interview with four of the ex-heads of the intelligence agencies, Ami Ayalon and three others. All four are fundamentalist leftists and all four endorsed Ayalon's "initiative". My guess is that if there ever really will be a state of Palestine, it will issue stamps with the mugs of the four ex-spooks who served Palestinian interests so faithfully.
Future historians are going to have a great deal of difficulty in explaining how Israel could possibly have been overcome with mass stupidity to the extent that it has been, or how Israel could still have been pursuing accords and deals with the PLO ten years after Oslo.
A large part of the answer will have to do with the complete failure of Israeli intelligence services to provide intelligence and to fulfill their assigned role. Instead, the intelligence services have long been dominated by leftists and Peres poodles repeating the mindless political mantras of Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin. From the very start of Oslo, the intelligence services refused to examine the question of what the PLO's intentions were, what its agenda was, whether it was going to comply with Oslo. The intelligence services simply accepted Peres' assurances that the PLO was truly interested in peace, and so, the "peace partner" role assigned the PLO by the Left was its only working axiom. At the start of Oslo, the intelligence agencies disbanded their networks of informers among the Palestinians and turned them over to the tender mercies of the PLO, which murdered and tortured them. Israel's Left denounced these informers, who had saved many a Jewish life, as "traitors to their own people". (Can you imagine Americans in 1945 denouncing as traitors to their own people those Germans who had served as informants for Allied forces and helped defeat the Reich?)
In part, the problem is the same as the problem of leftist domination of the senior military ranks in general in Israel. Because senior brass retire in their 40's and need to be set up for a cushy second career, they are dependent on the politicians, and so, they have toed the leftist line to assure the good graces of the political Left. After all, Labor has run the government more often than Likud, and in any case, the main goal of the Likud, whenever it has been in office, has always been to help the Labor Party get re-elected. (Just look at the decision taken, under a Likud government, to prosecute the owners of the Arutz-7 "pirate" radio station and to seek to sentence them to very long periods in prison.)
The intelligence services have also long been Beilinized. A rare exception was General Yaakov Amidror, a religious Jew who ran military intelligence until he had his career blocked by the political establishment. He was not only skeptical of Oslo. He has a guest Op-Ed in Haaretz on November 19, 2003, denouncing the Beilin Misunderstandings. He states that under Beilin's plan, the PLO will be able to move tank columns across the Negev with no possibility for Israel to stop them. The Jerusalem Post reported Friday that Beilin had promised the PLO the "German Colony" neighborhood in New or Western Jerusalem, not only all of East Jerusalem. (For Hebrew readers, the full article by Amidror is at Haaretz.co.il). If the rule of leftist fundamentalists running Israeli intelligence sounds strange to you, by the way, take a look at Prof. Angelo Codevilla's seminal book on how leftism dominates the CIA (www.fetchbook.info/search_0743244842/tab_editions.html). Codevilla is one of the great minds in the United States today.
As for the four ex-intelligence buffoons who gave a long interview for the weekend Yediot, the only thing of value from that interview is a vivid image of why Israel has been pushed to the brink of destruction. If such people direct Israeli intelligence services, the country will not survive.
Last evening, the TV documentary show hosted by Ilana Dayan showed a long video tape taken of the "negotiations" between the team of mindless leftists accompanying Yossi Beilin to Geneva and the PLO terrorhoids. The tape spoke for itself and, wisely, Dayan just let it run and let people make up their own minds. It might have been entitled ?How Learning Disabled Kindergarten Children From a Kibbutz Can Negotiate a Peace Settlement?.
After the tape, Dayan interviewed one of the leftist fundamentalist ex-spooks. Here are some citations from that interview, as they appeared in today's Haaretz:
?Avraham Shalom, the Shin Bet chief forced to resign in the 1980s because of the Bus 300 affair, made an unprecedented TV appearance Tuesday evening....
?Shalom...[announced] that he was signing the Ayalon-Nusseibeh petition, and [warned]... Israel's ?humiliation? of the Palestinians was no way to fight terror....
?He said he is worried about what is happening to Israel as a ?conquering occupying nation. We've become professional occupiers, not paying any attention to what is happening to the other side. I'm not talking about the war on terror. I am talking about how we treat the other side.?
?He said that ?of course we should arrest the terrorists... but there's no reason to make people strip at a checkpoint and there's no reason to stop an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman about to give birth.?
?Asked if he believes the Palestinians enough to strike a deal with them, Shalom said ?We're two peoples living on the same land and if we can't learn to trust one another, there will only be chaos here and nobody will be able to live here.??
Actually, that is not an accurate citation. I heard the interview, and he said ?I have to believe in the peaceful intentions of the PLO, because, if not, there will be no one to make peace with.? Welcome to the Israeli University of Duh.
No doubt Neville Chamberlain said the same thing about Hitler.