Roadmap to Hell
Charles Johnson
Wed May 7, 2003 at 8:32 am PDT • Views: 145
An excellent essay by David Warren on the Roadmap to Hell. (Hat tip: M. Simon.)
…the least funny part of this bad joke, is the fact that the U.S. will continue to co-ordinate its position with that of the other members of the “Quartet” — Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations.
These parties have different interests, and neither Russia nor the U.N. has any existential interest in a lasting regional peace. Russia has oil to sell whose price would collapse after an Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough; it has influence to peddle that would be lost by the same.
The U.N. must, within itself, co-ordinate both pro- and anti-terrorist factions. We were all reminded of this latter, last year, when Terje Larsen, the U.N.’s Middle East coordinator, stood before the cameras at Jenin and insinuated there was evidence of an Israeli massacre, when he was in a position to know better. It was a cynical manoeuvre to deflect the Security Council from a debate on actual Palestinian massacres (130 Israeli civilians had died in the previous month’s suicide bombings). He, and so many like him, should never be trusted again.
And the Europeans have been bankrolling Palestinian terror through few-questions-asked aid programmes: possibly not as conscious policy, but with a refusal to investigate end uses of funds that goes beyond the merely naïve.
Frank says: