{"id":2002,"date":"2010-09-02T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2010-09-02T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:29:23","slug":"israel-appeasement-or-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/israel-appeasement-or-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel: Appeasement or Surrender?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under this headline, Israel concedes Jerusalem before negotiations even begin<\/a>, a story that begins thus:<\/p>\n

Ahead of the start of today’s Mideast summit in Washington, the Israeli government publicly conceded sections of Jerusalem will become part of a Palestinian state while holy sites would be governed by a “special regime.”<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Defense Minister Ehud Barak outlined a deal with the Palestinians: “West Jerusalem and 12 Jewish neighborhoods that are home to 200,000 residents will be ours. The Arab neighborhoods in which close to a quarter million Palestinians live will be theirs.<\/p>\n

“There will be a special regime in place along with agreed upon arrangements in the Old City, the Mount of Olives and the City of David,” added Barak.<\/p>\n

Barak told the newspaper what is needed “is courage to make historic, painful decisions. I’m not saying that there is certainty for success, but there is a chance. This chance must be exploited to the fullest.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Courage? Courage?!<\/strong> Other words fit far better.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, another spit-in-the-wind observation: Only Jews need make “historic, painful decisions.”<\/p>\n

To think anything good will come of this requires a willing suspension of disbelief.<\/p>\n

These have not been good years for Israel.<\/p>\n

And they will get worse.<\/a><\/p>\n

Far worse.<\/p>\n

The Bible tells me so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under this headline, Israel concedes Jerusalem before negotiations even begin, a story that begins thus: Ahead of the start of today’s Mideast summit in Washington, the Israeli government publicly conceded sections of Jerusalem will become part of a Palestinian state while holy sites would be governed by a “special regime.” Speaking in an interview with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[395,3,7],"tags":[94,643,521],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-and-such","category-middle-east","category-suspension-of-disbelief","tag-israel","tag-palestinians","tag-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-wi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}