Bush In "No Hurry" To Create Palestinian State...

New York Post Online Edition: commentary

ARIEL CALLS MAHMOUD 'HOSTAGE' TO TERRORISTS
By URI DAN

October 21, 2005 -- JERUSALEM — "While President Bush and Mahmoud Abbas were meeting in Washington yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the Palestinian leader a "hostage" to the terror groups that Bush pressed Abbas to eliminate.

"Abbas made a major mistake when he concluded agreements with Hamas and Islamic Jihad instead of dismantling them," Sharon told The Post. "At that moment, he became a hostage in their hands."

At the White House, Bush did agree with Abbas that Israel must remove unauthorized outposts, stop settlement expansion in the West Bank and make sure the "security" barrier being built is not used as "a political barrier."

But that was merely a restatement of the long-standing American position, said Israeli officials, who gleefully focused on Bush's attention to the problem of violence by Palestinian gangs and terror groups.

"Bush showed he is in no hurry to create a Palestinian state," one official said. "He showed that it depends first and foremost on the Palestinian duty to crush their terror infrastructure."
"The president clearly reminded Abbas that it was his turn to do something about it," an Israeli official said."

While I do not have a definitive transcript of what W said to Abbo, Abbas, Abbat, former thug and terrorist extraordinaire himself, it is comforting to hear that the Israeli's are pleased with what went on in the meeting between the President of the United States and the President (?) of Paleo-lithic Meatbombs R Us.

We cannot fight every war in every place at every time, so it is understandable, especially since we have no allies with any military to speak of, that the administration must at times walk softly and refrain from waving the big stick quite as much. War is many things, not tipping your hand to the enemy is an important part of winning, and in this age of constant media feeding frenzies the White House does not need the usual suspects alarming the American people by plastering "Bush Warns Abbas" headlines from pillar to post. Wise people know how the MSM can erode the will to win and it's a delicate balance of having a plan but not allowing that plan into the hands of they who would do us harm.

In other words, keep ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN in the dark as much as you can