Susan Rice Blames Israeli Houses for Muslim Terrorism November 16, 2013

Some time ago in the Deadly Israeli House, I wrote…

Hamas shoots thousands of rockets and Israel builds thousands of houses. But Israeli houses generally stay where they’re built, while Hamas rockets are as likely to kill Gazans as they are to put holes in the roofs of those dastardly houses. And in the arms race between houses and rockets, the Israelis appear to be winning. And that’s not good for peace. If Israelis get the dangerous idea that they can just keep building houses and outlast all the talented rocketeers who spend their time with the Koran in front of one eye and the Anarchist’s Cookbook in front of the other, then what hope is there for peace?

That is why no one cares much about Hamas rockets, which only kill Israelis, who most reasonable people in London, Paris and Brussels think have it coming anyway, but get into a foaming lather about an Israeli house. Killing Israelis has never been any obstacle to peace. Twenty years of killing Israelis has not dissuaded a single Israeli government from sitting down at the table to dicker with the terrorists. But an Israeli family living in a house is holding down territory that it will be harder to then cede to terrorists.

This peace plan, which has worked as well as fighting fire with gasoline, has not in any way been endangered by two decades of terror, but trembles down to its toes every time an Israeli hammer falls on an Israeli nail in the vicinity of Jerusalem. Because that land must go back so that rockets can be shot from it into Israel, so that Israel can invade it and reclaim it, and then sit down for another peace process to return the land from which the rockets will be fired, which will be invaded, which will be given back… for peace.

Now Susan Rice is following the old party line of the Deadly Israeli House…

In a speech to a Washington think tank, Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, said the United States remained committed to Middle East peacemaking, but made clear that it saw Jewish settlement construction plans as hampering those efforts.

“We have seen increased tensions on the ground. Some of this is a result of recent settlement announcements. So let me reiterate: The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” she said.

Her remarks to a conference of the Middle East Institute drew applause from an audience that included former and current US officials, foreign diplomats, some from Arab countries, and regional experts.

Israel has basically locked down construction to a large degree. There’s little construction happening outside of major areas. And it’s insane to even demand that life has to stop in towns where tens of thousands of people live, that new stores can’t be built and new homes can’t be built until such a time as some final peace agreement is reached, something which is unlikely considering that it hasn’t happened in twenty years. 

It’s even more insane to demand that of Israel, but not of the Palestinian Authority.

And worse still, Susan “Benghazi was a Video” Rice appears to be blaming Israeli houses for Muslim terrorism. Instead of condemning the Muslim terrorism, she’s condemning the Israeli houses.
By  Daniel Greenfield


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Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel in 2013. click here