Jihad-Statism in Davos

What to do about Islamic butchering, mass rape and murder? ‘Give ’em a state!’

Delusional in Davos

Column: Iran, not Israel, is the obstacle to Middle East peace

By: Matthew Continetti, WFFB, January 18, 2024

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat for an interview with New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. It was not reassuring.

The exchange began with a discussion of the Middle East. The region has been aflame since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering 1,200 Israelis, kidnapping hundreds more, and spiriting away the innocents into an underground hell.

For the past 104 days, Israel has sought to destroy Hamas and free the captives. Throughout, Hezbollah in Lebanon has been fighting a low-intensity conflict with Israel. Militias have attacked U.S. forces deployed in Syria and Iraq hundreds of times. Houthi terrorists have fired drones and rockets at commercial shipping and U.S. naval assets in the Red Sea. On the morning Blinken spoke in Davos, Iran launched missiles into Syria, Iraq, and nuclear-armed Pakistan.

War rages. What most interests Tom Friedman, however, are the chances for a Palestinian state. He says it’s the key to peace in the Middle East—a position from which he has not wavered, despite all evidence to the contrary, for more than 20 years. Antony Blinken is more than happy to indulge in this delusion.

“If you take a regional approach,” he told Friedman, “and if you pursue integration with security, with a Palestinian state, all of a sudden you have a region that’s come together in ways that answer the most profound questions that Israel has tried to answer for years, and what has heretofore been its single biggest concern in terms of security, Iran, is suddenly isolated along with its proxies, and will have to make decisions about what it wants its future to be.”

Pierce through the bureaucratic lingo, and you encounter a statement breathtaking in its unseriousness. In a world filled with crises, the U.S. secretary of state has decided to resume a generations-long quest for the diplomatic Holy Grail: a Palestinian state. Governed by whom? His answer is a “stronger, reformed Palestinian Authority that can more effectively deliver for its own people.”

Where will that come from? Jupiter? This “stronger, reformed Palestinian Authority” won’t be the product of the corrupt 88-year-old Holocaust denier who is in the 18th year of his 4-year term. Or the 72 percent of Palestinians who say Hamas’s atrocities were “correct.” To say nothing of Israel, which would not accept, nor should be forced to accept, a Palestinian state that coddles and provides safe harbor for terrorists.

A Palestinian state is a nonstarter until Israel defeats its enemies, reestablishes deterrence, and evicts UNRWA from the premises. It is a nonstarter until the Palestinian Authority ends its incitement to murder and its payments to the families of stabbers, killers, and mad bombers.

Antony Blinken—Harvard ’84, Columbia Law ’88—is apparently unaware that wishing does not make things so. The story he tells is fantasy. Before October 7, the “regional integration” Blinken desires was on track not because a Palestinian state was imminent, but because the Sunni Arab powers saw it in their national interest to join with Israel in balancing against Iran.

It was in the Sunni Arab interest to back the “strong horse” of Israel and its ally, the United States, to ward off the Shiite radicals. Nor is the region disintegrating because the Palestinians remain stateless. It’s falling apart because Israel has been weakened and American power has declined.

Iran is missing from Blinken’s analysis. He says that a Palestinian state will isolate Iran and force it “to make decisions about what it wants its future to be.” Has he not been paying attention? Iran has made its decision. The mullahs want to remain in power. They want the revolution to spread. They want Israel gone and the United States in retreat. That’s where any serious analysis must start.

The transcript of Blinken’s conversation runs for 6,868 words. Israel is namechecked 23 times. Iran is mentioned just six times. And four of those six mentions are references to how Donald Trump shouldn’t have withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal. “We had Iran’s nuclear program in a box,” Blinken said. “Since the agreement was torn up, it’s escaped from that box, and we’re now at a place where we didn’t want to be because we don’t have the agreement.”

Wrong, Mr. Secretary. Iran was violating the misguided nuclear deal from the get-go. It used the money it received on cash pallets to fund its terrorist proxies across the Greater Middle East. John Kerry’s piece of paper didn’t box Iran in. The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, including the killing of IRGC general Qassem Soleimani, did that. Iran escaped when Joe Biden entered office and reversed the Trump policies, hoping that sanctions relief and an open hand would revive the deal.

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Eric Arthur Blair

3 months ago

Blinkers returned Afghanistan to the Taliban and has given Iran everything they want.

Of course, he wants to create as many Islamic terror states as possible. He is an Iranian spy like his best friend, Robert Malley.

John McCain warned us about Blinkers and said he is a very dangerous man. Don’t be fooled by his sheepish personality; what goes on behind that mask is perfidious and treasonous behavior.

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Sir Peter

3 months ago

The only state they will accept involves the destruction of Israel. The only way to achieve peace is to exterminate all paleostinians

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Arthur Vasquez

3 months ago

Reply to  Sir Peter

Give them a state no way!!! God wouldn’t give up one inch of his land, if they try they don’t want to experience the consequences.

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Stephen Honig

3 months ago

The most evil country in the world is Iran. Trump must destroy their nuclear progam if it’s not to late. I hope Nostradamus was wrong on his prediction.

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fir1

3 months ago

The only box they had the nutbags in iran in was one with no bottom or top to it – in other words completely useless – Orange man was absolutely right in withdrawing and destroying Irans economy they were on the ropes until China joe has made certain they are back on their psycho feet –

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