Israeli Officials: Palestinians Routed, About To Fold

[Purveyor]

NEW YORK - The Israeli delegation to the UN General Assembly expressed satisfaction on Wednesday after the first day of the international gathering in New York.

"The Palestinians were routed and they are about to fold. Not everything is sealed but it is clear that they have received a significant blow from the American and French positions," they said.

According to sources in the delegation, the Americans and Europeans are beginning to understand the harsh reality of the present Middle East. Israel presented a vast amount of intelligence information pointing to al-Qaeda's penetration in Egypt and the growth of radical Islam in the Arab country.

Diplomatic officials stated that Israel warned that Sinai could turn into a second Afghanistan. "The images from the storming of the Egyptian embassy in Cairo and Mubarak's trial changed the Western perception of what is actually transpiring in the Middle East," they said.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. go ahead and celebrate. Lieberman and his ilk

have done so much long term damage that it will take years to fix it.

[Purveyor]

2. They shall eventually have to reap what they have sown and it won't be pretty.

It will be interesting to see what, if any impact this will have on the 'Arab Spring' movement, indeed.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Think of a piece of art, a painting that you love.

Take bits and pieces of the background, completely turn them upside down, change how they act, who they are, and what secret agreements their former leaders actually had with the US and Israel. Oops, I meant how the background provided light, shadow, structure, depth, atmosphere, insight, and tons of suggestions for the key element of the painting.

That kind of change is huge. From a beloved and cherished piece of art, it becomes dark, dank, dreary, even deadly. It describes a brave new world that our parents experienced with a. the A-Bomb; b. the Moon Landing; and c. Dancing with the stars, d. Internet.
Who could have imagined the incredible leaps and bounds our technology made? The changes in their world were huge, yet, often, they were so close to it, that it seemed natural, rather than an incredible change in society.

The Arab Spring was no less earth shattering than the Russian Revolution, Mao's victory over royal supporters, the Post-Allende Chile, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the shattering of the USSR, or a whole slew of other major changes in world's religious/economic/social/political "reality."

The question is, will Israel realize just how they face both a huge danger, as well as the best opportunity ever to make permanent peace?