Rice Acknowledges a Reality

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Benjamin Franklin said, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

I agree. In fact I think this principle applies to those who would give up their land for peace. If you surrender your land to those who threaten you, it means they will do it again and again and again until you have no land to give up.

Israel has already been EXTREMELY generous with their neighbors who want them dead. Israel has given them land, power, food, blankets, etc. Israel is the only democracy in the middle-east and the only nuclear power.

Only one side is preventing peace in the middle-east, and that is the side that wants to murder Jews. If they leave Israeli Jews alone, and stop blowing up Jewish women and children, there can be peace. If they don't, or they demand land for peace, it's better to have no peace. Israel will win either way.

And for the record, the closest peace talks ever came to actual peace was in 1996 when Israel offered to return all land won in 1967 and offered to help the Palestinian territory become its own country if they could simply stop killing Jews for 1 week. They couldn't do it. Actually, they WOULDN'T do it because they care more about killing Jews than they do about peace.