{"id":1901,"date":"2006-11-08T12:51:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/you-dont-make-peace-with-your-enemies\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T12:51:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:51:45","slug":"you-dont-make-peace-with-your-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/you-dont-make-peace-with-your-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Make Peace with Your Enemies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freund.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2006\/11\/you_dont_make_p.html\"><strong>By Michael Freund<\/strong><\/a>          (Israel National News)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Yossi Beilin was at it again.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Israel Radio, the dovish head of the Yahad\/Meretz faction in the Knesset spoke about the need to start negotiations with Syria in an effort to reach a peace deal with the Dictator from Damascus, Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem to matter one whit to Mr. Beilin that Assad is a ruthless tyrant who has been busy aiding Hizbullah in Lebanon, the insurgents in Iraq, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Assad&#8217;s hands may be full of blood, but Beilin just can&#8217;t wait to shake them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Nor, it seems, does Syria&#8217;s beating of the war drums seem to dissuade him. Just yesterday, Syria&#8217;s Information Minister echoed remarks made by Assad in recent months, threatening that if Israel did not hand over the Golan Heights, Damascus might resort to &#8220;other means, which struggling people have used at various points in history&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military intelligence now reportedly believes that Syria and Hizbullah are planning to launch another round of conflict with the Jewish state next summer.<\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show how wrong the left has been in asserting that, &#8220;you can only make peace with your enemies.&#8221; This may be a good sales slogan, but it is intellectually vacuous. The fact of the matter is that you don&#8217;t make peace with your enemies&#8230;. And this is not just an issue of semantics. When someone is out to get you, you can&#8217;t fool yourself into thinking that smiling at him a couple of times will change his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Syria is gearing up for war &#8211; verbally, psychologically and militarily. All the evidence points in that direction, and wishful thinking on Israel&#8217;s part won&#8217;t make it go away.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Freund (Israel National News) Excerpts; Yossi Beilin was at it again. In an interview on Israel Radio, the dovish head of the Yahad\/Meretz faction in the Knesset spoke about the need to start negotiations with Syria in an effort to reach a peace deal with the Dictator from Damascus, Bashar al-Assad. It doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}