Quartet messages Israel: We won't let you turn around
By Stan Goodenough
December 16, 2008
No matter what the realities on the ground or how discredited the land-for-peace process has been after decades of futile efforts to push ahead with it, the so-called Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators let Israel know Tuesday that there is no going back, no way out, no turning around.
To the contrary, efforts are going to be made to shoulder ahead with the process. And if it is in fact endangering the security and very existence of Israel, that's just too bad.
A dictatorial statement released by the group said that "the bilateral negotiations process launched at Annapolis is irreversible and ... these negotiations should be intensified in order to put an end to the conflict and to establish as soon as possible the state of Palestine."
The land on which this "Palestine" is to be created has for nearly 4000 years been regarded by Jews as their national homeland, and houses the bones of Israel's founding fathers.
US Secretary of State is Condoleezza Rice has been particularly keen to lock in the "progress" she has made at pushing, cajoling and strong-arming Israel into striking a deal with the Arabs.
With time running out for her - she has just a month left in her powerful position - a relieved Rice said the Quartet''s resolution had "put the international community on record in believing in the irreversibility of the Annapolis process."
To placate the oil-wielding aggressive Arab states and uncompromising Muslim demands, the God-rejecting nations of the world remain determined to divide up the Jews' divinely-given land.
According to the Bible - a day of reckoning is racing towards them.
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