Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Iran Proposes Alternative To Annapolis

In a move that is not at all surprising, the Iranian government has proposed an alternate meeting.

Iran said on Tuesday that it had invited Palestinian militant factions to a meeting in Tehran aimed at countering a US-hosted Middle East peace conference seeking to kickstart the peace process.


From this opening statement in this very short article, most intelligent people can effectively surmise that the meeting Iran is proposing will not have peace as a long-term objective.

"These groups are planning to come to Tehran within the next week or two and they are all the Palestinian groups that are struggling for the freedom of their land," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.


Translation: These groups are planning to come to Tehran within the next week or two and they are all the Palestinian groups that are struggling to destroy Israel.

In other words:

The strip of land in question (which was once barren and fruitless before 1948) belongs to the Palestinian people and there is no process or deal that is acceptable, short of all Jews vacating it permanently, so that the Palestinian militant groups can turn it back into a barren and fruitless war zone, once again.

Iran is one of the most vocal backers of Palestinian militant groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad and pledged millions of dollars in 2006 to the then Hamas government crippled by a Western aid cut.

The Islamic republic does not recognise Israel and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has provoked outrage by calling for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.


As much as I would like to applaud the efforts of the Annapolis conference, I cannot get very optimistic. As long as the current government in Iran is in power, there will be no peace in the Middle East. Pledging millions of dollars in 2006 is nothing new. Ask them about the billions that have been pumped into Hezbollah and others, since the regime was installed in 1979.

As long as oil is a necessary commodity throughout the world, these people will have funding for terror operations. As long as states such as Iran and Saudi Arabia use their huge oil revenues to finance this hatred, it will not go away anytime soon.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

As you say, oil (and money) make the world go 'round. If I were President, I'd call in both sides. I'd put the deal Clinton proposed in front of both sides. I'd say, "Accept it, or lose every red cent of aid, humanitarian or otherwise, for as long as I have any say in the matter." Maybe then it would have a chance of working.

LA Sunset said...

//"Accept it, or lose every red cent of aid, humanitarian or otherwise, for as long as I have any say in the matter." Maybe then it would have a chance of working.//

The trouble with this is, Hamas gets nothing from us. We have no bargaining chips. Saudi Arabia and Iran are the funders of Hamas.

Not only that, under the Clinton plan, Israel gave the Palestinians everything except Jerusalem. They turned it down then, and it's highly likely, they'd turn it down now.