Baker Gang to Urge Israel Concessions?

Eli Lake of the New York Sun is reporting that the Baker-Hamilton Commission on Iraq is expected to recommend that the Bush administration pressure Israel to make concessions in order to entice Syria and Iran to a regional conference on Iraq.

The recommendations of the Baker team are expected to be delivered to the President and made public either Thursday or Friday of this week. However, all indications point to the group urging the President to open talks with Iran and Syria, two confirmed state sponsors of terrorism.

In advance of the anticipated recommendations, both Iran and Syria on Wednesday issued statements skeptical of the plan unless the United States is willing to make major concessions, one of which is the withdrawal of our insistence at the U.N. that Iran stop its nuclear program.

The Baker team believes that Iran and Syria can be lured to the negotiation table by concessions from Israel, the nation that the Iranian President wants to wipe off the map.

My question is, how many more concessions must Israel make before the entire nation is given away to Islamists?

Little by little Israel has been forced into concessions through the years that have NOT resulted in less violence, but more demands. Precious Israeli land has been summarily turned over to Palestinians under promises, most of the time by misguided American officials, that the result will be peace.

Take a look at the map of the Middle East. Better still, copy a map off on your printer so that you can color in sectors of the area. With the map before you, color in the nation of Israel in red. Then color Islamic nations in black. Compare the two.

Who has the upper hand? Who is it that now looks foolish for demanding more land at the expense of Jews?

The fact of the matter is that Islamists control 99% of the land in the region. Yet they fight over a tiny portion of that land, spewing hate and perpetrating violence toward a group of people who wish to hang onto one tiny segment of land that had once been the possession of Hebrews for centuries. Thus, the insistence of Palestinians to possess more and more of that land cannot by any rational estimation be justified.

When you already control 99% of the region and are yet determined to cause World War III in order to take 1%, you display for the entire world not only your irrationality but your abject insanity.

If the Baker-Hamilton Commission does, in fact, recommend such concessions from Israel, then the Baker gang is even more delusional than I thought. It is bad enough that they urge the President to negotiate with state sponsors of terrorism. It will be the last straw if they urge him to pressure Israel to make concessions.

If this is the advice the Baker team delivers, then the President should not only reject the entire package outright, but send the has-beens from another era home to retirement where they belong.