It is perhaps the most succinct way to summarize the Oslo Era to point out that the leading issue of controversy being debated in Israel these days is the seven-day tranquility period. As you know, Sharon has conditioned the resuming of "talks" with the PLO on there first transpiring seven full complete days of absolute tranquility, with no shooting, shelling or other atrocities by the PLO and its Hamas and Jihad front groups. Kind of like the seven-day waiting period before buying a gun in parts of the US. Why Sharon chose a seven day period instead of a seventy year period is not clear to us at all.

Be that as it may, the Israel anencephelic Left has been screaming that this Israeli demand for a seven day period of non-shooting is totally unrealistic and indeed an intolerable affront against the Palestinians on the part of Sharon and Israel.

Now think about this. After nearly a decade of Oslo, after a long serious of Oslo "Accords" and one full year after Ehud Barak offered the PLO all of the "territories" plus parts of pre-1967 Israel plus the Old City with the Western Wall plus tribute plus allowing 150,000 Palestinian "refugees" to "return" to Israel, an offer dismissed by the Man with the Pubic Hair on His Face as too miserly, after ALL THIS we have now reached the situation where everyone on earth knows that a full week without the PLO committing atrocities is simply out of the question. A total nonstarter. A utopian dream.

And if a full week without PLO atrocities is a pipedream, should not the logical conclusion be that Israel now needs to resolve the situation through R&D (Re-Occupation and Denazification)?

Of course not, insists the Israeli Left. Never mind that no one thinks the PLO is willing to stop the atrocities for a week. Israel must still continue to appease it unilaterally. Israel needs to expel Jewish "settlers" from the "territories", needs to conduct negotiations over a new "deal". And what reason is there to think the PLO will comply with any such "deal" when it cannot be expected to stop atrocities now for a week? Never you mind, squeals the Left, Israel needs to appease because it is the right thing to do and because it makes us feel so morally righteous and smug to advocate it. Appeasement to the Last Israeli - that is the mantra of Israel’s Left, endorsed by the Tikkun Left (who are well known to put the hookah pipe back in the pipedreams) overseas and similar well-wishers.

SO one wonders. If Rabin, who was long ago deified by the Israeli Pagan Left, had known that the direct result of his policies would be where no one on earth thinks it is realistic to expect that the PLO will ever halt atrocities against Jews for a full week, would he have pursued the policies he did? Would he have allowed his snout to be pulled by Peres and Beilin?

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