* Charles Krauthammer on the Geneva Agreement:
On the Palestinian side, the negotiator is former information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, who at least is said to have Yasser Arafat’s ear. The Israeli side, however, is led by Yossi Beilin, a man whose political standing in his own country is so low that he failed to make it into Parliament. After helping bring his Labor Party to ruin, Beilin abandoned it for the far-left Meretz Party, which then did so badly in the last election that Beilin is now a private citizen…
This is scandalous. Israel is a democracy, and this agreement was negotiated in defiance of the democratically (and overwhelmingly) elected government of Israel. If a private U.S. citizen negotiated a treaty on his own, he could go to jail under the Logan Act. If an Israeli does it, he gets a pat on the back from the secretary of state.
* Israel was forced to withdraw its UN resolution calling for the protection of Israeli children from terrorism.
* Caroline Glick weighs in on Netanyahu’s economic plan, arguing that “peace is required to bring economic prosperity” is a falsity perpetuated by the Israeli left:
Netanyahu is doing yeoman’s work in convincing us to reject the Labor party’s lies about our economic impotence. But these positive changes cannot stand on their own. Until we free ourselves of the canard that we cannot remain a Jewish democracy unless we enable the establishment of a terror state that will undermine both, our leaders will continue to delude themselves, and most of us, that fences and unilateral surrenders will save our lives and our state.
* Yoel Esteron on Tony Judt’s outrageous New York Review of Books article last month (where Judt claimed the State of Israel is an “anachronism”).
* Bret Stephens on Turkey and “the real Mideast mystery” — “Is Islamic religious radicalism separable from terrorism, practically speaking?”
