I am in agreement with those who believe that last thing Israel, or even the United States, need is a resumption of peace talks". History has proven time and again that the overwhelming majority of Arab nations (and therefore populations) have absolutely no intention of ever living peacefully next to a Jewish Israel.

If we just start in 1993, with the signing of the Oslo accords, how many "peace" initiatives have been started, only to be violated immediately? No matter how many promises of peace are made by the likes of Abbas, Arafat or any Arab "peace-nik", the outcome is always the same.

Let's take a look at the Oslo agreement. It really was a simple formula. Based on the 1979 treaty between Israel and Egypt, Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the official representative of the Palestinian people, to give them land, arms and billions of dollars in return for two things - recognition of Israel's right to exist and a stop to incitement against the Jews.

What happened?

Nothing. Oh, Israel gave them all that they were promised; Arafat and his cronies were allowed to set up shop, arm themselves and kiss the faces of American (Hillary Clinton) and European (too many to mention) leaders.

And Israel?

Two years later, Prime Minister Netanyahu was forced to give Arafat more. Although the Palestinian Authority had yet to stop the incitement (they continued to publish textbooks that excluded any Israeli territory acceptance and continued to broadcast extreme anti-Semitic programming glorifying martyrdom) and had yet to officially recognize Israel's right to exist.

So Netanyahu had to give them more. And more. And more.

It finally led to PM Ehud Barak offering Arafat everything he supposedly wanted, which included dividing up Jerusalem, just for what Arafat promised 7 years earlier. Although it inevitably caused Barak his position and led President Clinton to outright blame Arafat, the Palestinian "leader" balked and said he wanted more. He now wanted every Arab the right to live in Israel regardless of any background issue, immigration issue or terror issue. Essentially, he demanded Israel to roll over and allow it's population to have an Arab majority.

How long would it take before Hamas took over Tel-Aviv?

So like Michael Medved and a number of other intuitive columnists, I have come to the conclusion that peace-talks have failed and will never work. Of course, I actually came to this conclusion in 1979, buy who's counting.

So where do we go from here?

It's one thing to say treaties won't work - it's another thing to take the next step. In my view, Israel understands the connection between Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran/Syria with what's happening in Iraq. To me, it's quite simple. Iran is clearly using Hezbollah to wage war with Israel in order to take the heat off it's nuclear development. With the G8 summit around the corner, it is advantageous for Iran to force the nuclear issue to the back-burner.

Furthermore, it rattles Israel's cage just enough to see how capable Israel would be when Iran has become nuclear.

In my experience watching the Arab-Israeli struggle for the last 40+ years, it is obvious to me that the capture of Gilad Shalit was a calculated ploy to push Israel into the conflict to test their resolve. When the negotiations failed (which they were never intended not to), then in stage two, Iran tell Hezbollah to open the second front.

If memory serves, I seem to remember the Soviets using the same ploy to get into the Yom Kippur war in 1973.

No one (with any intelligence) doubts that if Iran becomes nuclear, it will change everything. In all likelihood, it would lead to a full-scale war involving not only Israel, but of the United States as well.

To me, it appears to be what Iran, and by proxy, all of the Islamofacist nations want. The great war between Islam and the West. Israel is just the flash point. But if the Israeli's bend to the misguided notion of "peace-talks", it will only serve to show that the Iranians are right and that the west (including Israel) are ill-prepared to fight for their survival.

By all things seen today, Israel is prepared to fight. President Bush may want to as well, but he's looking at the big picture and really doesn't have the gun to his head that Israel does. It would be a foolish mistake for the US to stop Israel now. They Arabs have shown us exactly what they are doing and now it's up to the free-world to put a stop to it.

If not now, when? If not us, who?

The longer we accept what the Arabs are doing as the norm, the weaker we become. There is only one outcome then and I shudder to think about it.

And for the fifth-column here in America, your right to free-speech will be just a passing memory for you to reminisce with. You may think it's wrong to not fight fair, but given the choice of defeating the globalization of Islamofacism and losing everything, I go with the fight. We are at war and like it or not, it will have a lasting outcome.