Your Middle East Peace and Novel Progress Update for 9/17/20

Powerline has a compilation clip of all the foreign policy jet-setters telling us how Trump's moving the embassy to Jerusalem makes peace far less likely and may indeed lead to war. Do watch, and do enjoy. There's even talk of the so-called 'Arab street'. Remember that from the post 9/11 months? The 'Arab street' was the Enron of violent threats. What have these people gotten right in the last 30 years? 

Don Surbur writes about Tom Freidman who still has the gall to opine on foreign policy and the Middle East. After the Second Intifada, which the Israelis ended by bulldozing a terrorist enclave till it looked like a set for a Hiroshima live-action retrospective, this elitist pustule said the 'peace process' could resume because Arafat showed he could make trouble and Sharon showed he couldn't get away with it. Friedman's never been right about anything. Remember the Freidman Unit? The Tom Friedman article generator?

We admit to not really thinking about what the Abraham Accords mean for Bibi. We can't really say what his domestic legacy will be, we're not there, after all. He has a strong economy to his credit. There's also the exploitation of the Leviathan natural gas field, which will make Israel an energy titan. Bibi's got a couple of military victories under his belt. Also he destroyed the Labour Party. Nobody deserved it more. We don't like the way he's handled social issues. We'll call his domestic record 'mixed'. But the Abraham Accords, well, these are downright biblical. Bibi is the undisputed master of Israeli politics, now and for all time.

The Feds monitoring our internet searches probably freaked out yesterday. We spent a couple of hours researching US Navy nuclear reactors. In The Great Nuclear War of 1975, the government is going to dock nuclear vessels and draw power from their reactors. the Enterprise  could generate a couple hundred megawatts. Go on...'I am looking for American nuclear wessel! Anyone know how much that could actually power? 

Between our quest for information about navy reactors and collusion with the GRU we expect to be visited by Federal goons today. Don't worry. We have a plan.

The first half of World War 1990: The Final Storm is really coming together. Lots of good progress this week on preparation for the attack front, cabinet meetings, arguing between Baker and Wolfowitz, that sort of thing.

Tom Friedman is too Stupid to be a Jew

Tom Friedman is too stupid to be a Jew:

Tom Friedman currently suggesting in his latest NYT column that Biden beat Trump by announcing the formation of a bipartisan "unity cabinet" featuring everyone from Mike Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, and MikeDewine to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Ro Khanna https://t.co/jFZedM16JI pic.twitter.com/xCCLSaHJIp

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) April 7, 2020

Still obsessed with centrism. Still obsessed with centrist consensus. Friedman learns nothing and forgets nothing.

The worst writer in the English Speaking World, said James Taranto (PBUH). We agree. Also the worst thinker.

Some of Friedman's other ideas: Sending foreign aid to the Soviet Union, Globalism, Arafat's* Second Intifada proved the Israelis and Palestinians had to work for peace and should just start over.

Anyone can write like this. It's easy.

*Career homosexual who died of AIDS.

Europe gets one Right...

...But not on purpose.

Via Breitbart:

NATO is not obliged to come to the aid of partner Israel if Iran attacks, secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg revealed, amid rising tensions between the Middle East rivals.

Mr. Stoltenberg told Der Spiegel magazine Saturday that while Israel is an active partner of the U.S.-led alliance, it is not a full member and NATO’s “security guarantee” therefore doesn’t apply to the Jewish state.

Herr Stotlenberg* is absolutely right. Besides, how would NATO defend Israel? Sponsor a condemnatory resolution at Strasbourg? Send it's overweight, out of shape soldiers to observe?

Israel joining NATO is one of those ideas that gets floated around by professional diplomatic jetsetters. Did Tom Friedman propose this? We bet Tom Friedman proposed this.

We can't find any proof he suggested this but since we mentioned Tom Freidman lets bash him.

Tom Freidman the 'Imperial Messenger' believed:

-Yasser Arafat wanted piece
-That after two years filled with war and terror Israel and the PA could go back to negotiating as if nothing had happened
-The US should deploy peacekeepers to the West Bank
-Israel should return to the pre-Six Day War Auschwitz borders in exchange for Arab diplomatic recognition.

So lets just assume Tom Friedman suggested Israel join NATO. To put it another way, Tom Friedman suggested the Jews rely on France, Spain, and oh yes, the Germans to protect them.

This is a point we made in Israel Strikes. The very idea is a sick joke.

*We could not write a more pretentious sounding name.