The Labor Party in Israel is a dinosaur...but one lone beast at large can still can
be a friggin' nightmare!
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| Simon Peres: A stranger to ever making the right call |
President Shimon Peres is under attack for undercutting the elected government's stance on the Iranian threat. Besides stating a position that runs counter to the Prime Minister's in a television interview, he is also reported to have accused Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in closed conversations, of "terrible irresponsibility" in the Iranian matter. Peres forgets that he made at least three cardinal mistakes regarding state security.
(1) The Oslo Accord that he thought would create a new Middle East and instead led to more than 1,000 Israel deaths from terror attacks that emanated from the territory he gave the Arabs.
(2) His support for the 2005 Gaza "Disengagement," which he thought would lead to peace and resulted in rocket attacks on southern Israel. (3) His worst miscalculation was his objection to the 1981 attack on the Iraqi nuclear plant.
The Israeli Labor Party - mostly honorable and decent folks - have seldom been able to comprehend that those who seek Israel's destruction are NOT like them! This inability to recognise a snake when it presents itself as a cuddly kitten is not only their Achilles heel, but their non judgement represents almost as big a danger to Israel as her numerous Islamofascist enemies.
