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Maryland Peace Talks

November 29, 2007

The man just can’t stand people trying to make peace in the world, at least not while Israel is a nation and there’s one Jew left. While Bush was meeting in Maryland with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was mocking the meeting. Peace would be the worst thing in the world for him to see come about.

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Abbas is currently in a bitter power struggle with Hamas for control of Palestinian territory. Hamas, which currently controls Gaza, opposed negotiations and supports continued armed resistance against Israel. Hamas, which the United States and Israel label a terrorist group, won Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, ousting the long-ruling Fatah party that Abbas heads. Abbas dissolved the Hamas-led government earlier this year after Hamas forces seized control of Gaza.

As Iran continues to build it’s nuclear capability, the watches and wonders.

Iran may be militarily impotent but a U.S. first strike would throw the Middle East into chaos while leaving Iran’s nuclear program largely intact, an Israeli military expert has reported. Yet, there’s as many reports of Israel doing a first strike as the U.S.: maybe more.

Iran’s leadership is in a panic, with the September bombing by Israel of a nuclear installation in Syria and implied threats by the U.S. of similar action in Iran. In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials are “lashing out in all directions.”

If struck, there is little Iran could do to retaliate. Its air force is a sorry collection of old U.S.-made aircraft left over from the Iran-Iraq War, some Russian-made fighters and homebuilt Saeqeh jets modeled after the American F5 Tiger, an aircraft last updated in the 1960s and rejected by the U.S. Air Force. But, Iran could foment terrorist attacks against the U.S. and Israel, but, at best, they would be ad hoc events with little strategic impact, he adds.

Where this is going to go, no one knows, but as the rhetoric increases, can anything good come from it? No one really wins!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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