We do not know what Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will say to US President Barack Obama during their first meeting, but let us hope that it will be something along the following lines:

The expectations are sky-high and the disappointments are liable to be equally great.

You and I are at the outset of our terms of office. The expectations are sky-high and the disappointments are liable to be equally great. Some people in Israel expect you to intervene in Israel's relations with the Arabs, both those living in the Land of Israel and in neighboring countries, while others expect you to refrain from intervening and to respect Israel's sovereignty and interests.

Mr. President, the basic condition for your success requires abandoning the assumption that the western part of the Land of Israel, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, which covers only 22 percent of the original Mandatory Palestine, is amenable to partition. This is a single geopolitical unit; there is no room for two states.



Permit me to draw your attention to your predecessors in office, presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who both lent a hand, even if in retrospect, to dangerous processes which, though they began in Israel, also affected important American interests. The first is the "peace process", whose origins lie in Oslo. The Oslo hallucinators took Clinton by surprise, and persuaded him to oversee a dangerous and dubious agreement signed by Israel with Yasser Arafat's terrorist organization.

Clinton's eight-year presidency was almost concurrent with the years between the shameful signing of the Oslo agreement in September of 1993, and the Oslo War - the agreement's inevitable outcome - launched in September of 2000 by the Palestinian Terror Authority.

The other dangerous processes were President Bush's "two-state vision" and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "disengagement." The result of expelling Jews from their homes in their own land - an act neither Jewish, democratic nor moral - was equally predictable and equally inevitable: a war in Gaza against the Palestinian enemy headed by Hamas, an organization that was elected by the Palestinians themselves and reflects the will of the majority.

Since 1993, Israel's leaders have cultivated the lies that peace depends on the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the western Land of Israel, and that a difference exists between the goals of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Even though the fraud is overt and bleeding, the Israeli Left refuses to accept responsibility for the wars it engendered; and the rest of the world, after all, cannot be more Zionist than Israel's leaders. The danger that threatens you, Mr. President, is that you too will be tempted to believe these lies. But you promised change.

True peace can be achieved between democratic states that are loyal to shared values of human rights, which, as

Israel has been ruled by suicidal tendencies and has been brainwashed into believing that peace can be achieved by means of suicide.

it happens, were given to the world by the people of Israel. Between countries at least one of which is not democratic, relative peace is possible only if a deterrent balance exists. The actions and blunders of Israel's leaders in recent years have eroded Israeli deterrence and have thereby rendered the prospect of peace more remote.

Since Oslo, Israel has been ruled by suicidal tendencies and has been brainwashed into believing that peace can be achieved by means of suicide: the lie of the establishment of a Palestinian state. The truth is that the Israeli and American interest obliges disengagement from the lies that have plunged Israel and its neighbors into a downward spiral ever since. The "two-state vision" has to be thrown into the garbage bin of history. It will never give rise to peace.

In addition, I would like to ask you to begin with a gesture not adopted by your predecessors, who failed in this regard: the release of Jonathan Pollard. He did not cause the US even a fraction of the damage and pain inflicted on Israel, for example, by Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Ismail Haniyeh and their henchmen. You will be able to succeed along the road only if you free Israel from the march of folly of its past leaders and your predecessors.