This plan/deal Bibi and Trump are cooking up won't bring Israel peace. It's a Trojan horse. It will only leave Israel more vulnerable than before. It doesn't take care of the real problem and leaves us even more dependent on the United States. I'm a realist, a pragmatist.
The key to peace is settling the Land, not policing it with new businesses. Donald Trump isn't in the real world of war and Bibi, our failed Prime Minister has never had the guts to really lead. He's just a master of oratory.
At first I was going to simply say that Bibi should have stayed in America and not returned. For those who either don't remember or are too young to know, Bibi had started a very successful career in the USA where he had gone to high school and university. He even changed his name to Ben Nitay.
A few years after his brother Yoni was killed in the legendary Entebbe rescue, he returned to Israel and his name. Then the more I thought about it, I realized that staying in the USA wouldn't have been a good idea. He'd be worse to Israel than Kissinger was. Henry Kissinger had tried to get Golda Meir to follow American "advice" during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which would have left us in a dangerous position. The Americans had been hiding their involvement with the "surprise*" attack on Israel. Even then, during that war I had suspected that Nixon and Kissinger had planned for Israel to reach a stalemate, not a victory. Then they'd come in and take over. They were sure that Kissinger could control Golda and the rest of the government. He was "one of us;" wasn't he? Couldn't a Jew convince them?
We must stop consulting with foreign rulers. They won't give us peace!
*Bruce Brill's memoir of the Yom Kippur War when he was with the NSA spills the beans about American involvement and passed censorship.
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It's a piece not peace process, or as Peres pronounced, "piss" process. Indeed, futile and counterproductive.
Bibi is worse. He's really a Leftist. This is surrender.
You’re right that Bibi’s life has straddled Israel and America, but that’s not unusual for our leadership. Ben-Gurion, Begin, Rabin, Peres — they all had deep ties abroad. That’s part of surviving in a hostile region. Bruce Brill’s book aside, the Yom Kippur War is not a one-to-one comparison with today. The real question isn’t whether Trump or Bibi are angels or devils but whether Israel can extract real strategic gains from negotiations without surrendering security. Writing off every deal as a trap leaves us frozen in place — and that’s not pragmatism either
Thanks for commenting. Bibi was basically raised in the states. His education was American. He's my age, so I know what was taught. I'm a rebel.
None of the other leaders, outside of Golda had such a background, and Golda was pretty tough to Kissinger. She didn't fold the way Bibi always has. Under Bibi's rule we've had lots of wars, been attacked. But he never reached a victory. Now we're paying the price. The next war will be much much worse.
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