Kenneth Levin on Condoleezza Rice

Kenneth Levin, author of “The Oslo Syndrome,” has an interview in FrontPage Magazine that is worth reading in its entirety (hat tip:  Anne Lieberman).  Here are his thoughts on Condoleezza Rice’s actions regarding Israel:

Secretary of State Rice has been a major architect of the current disastrous situation.

She pushed for allowing Hamas to participate in the January, 2006 Palestinian elections despite its refusal to accept previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements, and so set the stage for Hamas’s election victory.

She pushed for Israel’s leaving the Philadelphi route and handing control and monitoring of the border to Egypt, leading to uncontrolled smuggling of arms into Gaza by terrorist organizations as well as the movement of terrorist operatives out of Gaza for training in Iran or by Iranian agents elsewhere and then back into Gaza to ply their newly learned skills against Israel.

She now pushes for final status talks even in the absence of a Palestinian partner that recognizes Israel’s right to exist [as a Jewish state].

Certainly, the embrace of Mahmoud Abbas as a "peace partner" and the insistence that Israel recognize him as such and negotiate a final status "peace" agreement with him reflect Bush Administration betrayal of its own principles . . . . Abbas has criticized Palestinian terror in recent years but, as he explicitly states, only because he regards it as currently an ineffective tool. He makes clear that he has no moral compunctions against the Palestinians’ terror war and has recently stated that he foresees future "resistance" if Palestinian demands are not met.

He has recently spoken proudly of his own terrorist past and of the trail blazed by Palestinian terrorism. He declared three days of mourning for the recently deceased arch-terrorist George Habash. He continues to use the media and schools under his control to indoctrinate Palestinians, particularly Palestinian children, to pursue Israel’s destruction.

The embrace of Abbas, and insistence that Israel likewise embrace him and make concessions to him, are the antithesis of the principles declared by the Bush Administration as it embarked on the war forced upon America by the 9/11 attacks.

If Ariel Sharon were able to speak, he would know what to say about Rice’s actions since his stroke.