Mid East talks start with bang thanks to moderate Muslims

Well the Middle east uh, er peace talks sure started off with a bang when moderate followers of the religion of peace and tolerance shot dead four Israelis. Now, have we heard any cries of outrage from Abbas, moderate Muslim Imams or any Muslim world uh, leaders? Of course not. But every serious event needs an opening ceremony and for the religion of peace, killing four innocents is perfect.


Then you have the moderate top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip rejecting compromise with Israel in a fiery speech on Wednesday, a day after the gunmen killed the four Israelis. The Jerusalem Post reported that, “Gaza strongman [and Muslim moderate] Mahmoud Zahar said the movement would resist peace efforts and criticized the Palestinian president for joining the negotiations.”

Note to self: Unless you are at the circus, anyone referred to as a “strongman” is probably an @$$wipe, creep, criminal or dictator. In this case he is probably all of the options rolled into one.

Zahar, by all State Dept accounts a moderate, babbled on making a point that Lex noted on the day Hillzilla announced the “historic” summit. "Today marks the start of direct negotiations between someone who has no right to represent the Palestinian people and the brutal occupier, to provide a cover for Judaizing Jerusalem and stealing the land." Hmmm, it would seem that moderate Zahar doesn’t think that Abbas has any authority in the Hamas rocket lunching region of Palestine known as the Gaza Strip. So why is Israel negotiating a treaty that cannot be enforced with moderate Palestinians like Zahar?

If I were brokering a deal I’d say:

OK this is what we’re going to do. Palestinians don’t like their lot. Fine. Israel and the Palestinians will simply swap plots of ground. You have six months.

Well after the six months the Palestinians would be living in Israel. After another six months they would be living in their own garbage, sewers would be backing up, electrical plants would be failing and the moderate Muslim bastards would start lobbing rockets into the Gaza Strip because the Israelis would have cleaned that $h!thole up, built businesses, houses, hotels etc.

So what’s Israel to do? Well no doubt P-BO will be pressuring them to cut a deal, any deal just in time for his 2012 campaign. But like everything else, P-BO has screwed this up. One of the big restraints on Israel has been the knowledge that the US would be there if things really got bad. Unequivocal US support for Israel has also kept some moderate Muslims who want to destroy Israel at bay. P-BO has managed to upset that balance. Now, Israelis are not so sure if the US will come to its aid and moderate Muslims are beginning to think, now is the time to crush Israel. The end result is a more dangerous Mid East, one where Israel is more likely to act on its own, US influence be damned.

Way to go P-BO. You’re doing a heck of a job.