Krauthammer is Wrong

I’ve come to dislike Charles Krauthammer. He is a typical faux DC establishment “conservative”. He’s right in that Oslo was a tragic mistake, but the “palestinians”, having not lived up to the accords, having continued with incitement and terrorism, makes Oslo null and void. As to the world not “allowing” Israel to make such a declaration, the world has no say since Israel is a sovereign nation. As to Israel not being able to take on the world, well when you have G-d on your side you can indeed take on the world. Krauthammer and his fake “conservative” DC ilk also despise Sarah Palin as well as other principled conservatives.

Via Israpundit:

Krauthammer: Israel has ‘given away’ claim to West Bank

There is no question that Oslo was a colossal blunder but I disagree that all Judea and Samaria and probably part of Jerusalem is lost. It all depends on our determination to hang tough. No one in the international community can guarantee that any move by us will bring us peace. T. Belman

By MORDECHAI I. TWERSKY, JPOST

Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, in wide-ranging broadcast interview, also discusses Iran, “Arab Spring” and American foreign policy.

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and political commentator, believes Israel has “given away” its claim to the West Bank and may also be ‘losing’ what he called the “battle to hang on to Jerusalem.”

“Israel’s diplomacy, unfortunately, tragically, catastrophically … has given away the legitimacy of its claim on the West Bank,” Krauthammer told “Inside Israel’s” Mordechai Twersky in a wide-ranging phone interview, April 12. “Now you have to face reality; now you live in a new world, and you have to accept it.”

In a highly controversial column last September titled, “Your Move, Mr. Abbas,” Krauthammer wrote of Israel: “No serious player believes it can hang on forever to the West Bank.”

A week later, in her column for the Jerusalem Post, Senior Contributing Editor Caroline Glick assailed Krauthammer for his remarks. “Given Krauthammer’s tremendous influence in shaping public opinion and policy in the US, his arrogant and false portrayal of reality is debilitating,” Glick wrote.

But in his interview with Twersky, Krauthammer removed himself from the equation.

“Once Israel conceded the Palestinian narrative in Oslo – this is Israeli concessions, this is not me,” said Krauthammer. “This is Israel as a nation. It conceded the legitimacy of the Palestinian revolution; it sort of accepted the Palestinian narrative, denigrated its own narrative of 1948-49. It got the world to accept Palestinian nationalism, nationhood – that’s what Oslo did.” he said.

Recent events in the Middle East have not changed Krauthammer’s view that Israel will have to relinquish parts of the West Bank.

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