Newt Gingrich brings up a few of the capital facts woefully omitted from the MSM's coverage of the Middle East conflict....“Senator Clinton, imagine that you’re the Israeli Foreign Minister: What do you do when the other party at the ‘peace table’ is openly committed to your destruction?”
This is the question that all our political and foreign policy elites who are demanding that Israel immediately agree to a “cease fire” with Hamas in Gaza should be asking.
And this is the fact that the anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic mobs that are taking to the streets in London, Edinburgh, Berlin and Washington, DC should know: Hamas is openly, publicly and proudly committed to the destruction of the state of Israel. This is a negotiating partner?
These are the words of the Hamas charter: Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.
And here is how the founding document of Hamas treats the concept of “negotiations”: "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
There are two main facts of the violence in the Middle East that all Americans -- and particularly our leaders -- should be aware of: The first is that Hamas exists to destroy Israel. Its leaders wake up every morning with one goal -- to eliminate what they call the “Zionist entity.” The second fact of violence in the Middle East is the ongoing effort by Iran (using Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas as its proxies) to undermine pro-American governments in the region.
On ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, President-elect Obama repeated his campaign pledge to negotiate with Iran. He also promised that there would be a “new emphasis on respect” in his administration’s dealings with Tehran.
President-elect Obama may want respect.
But Iran’s theocratic rulers want victory.
This is a dangerous mismatch of goals for America and a potentially nuclear, aggressor regime to have...
