New York Times Columnist Calls For U.S. To Embrace Relations With Hezbollah and Hamas

Cross posted by Holger Awakens

Roger Cohen. Write that name down folks, because it's the name of the New York Times columnist who wrote one of the most significant pieces of terror-appeasing filth we've seen in a very long time. This guy should be embarrassed to call himself an American, hell....he should be (edited) for this kind of treason spewing from his finger tips. I encourage all of you to go to the full article here at the New York Times so you can see what surrender to radical islam looks like - I've excerpted key portions of the article here. Read with your own eyes how an American has fallen to the ground, bowed his head, dug his nose into the sand and given up to the islamist pigs of this world:

Britain aligned itself with the U.S. position on Hezbollah, but has now seen its error. Bill Marston, a Foreign Office spokesman, told Al Jazeera: “Hezbollah is a political phenomenon and part and parcel of the national fabric in Lebanon. We have to admit this.”
Hallelujah.

The United States should follow the British example. It should initiate diplomatic contacts with the political wing of Hezbollah. The Obama administration should also look carefully at how to reach moderate Hamas elements and engineer a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation.

The 1988 Hamas Charter is vile, but I think it’s wrong to get hung up on the prior recognition of Israel issue. Perhaps Hamas is sincere in its calls for Israel’s disappearance — although it has offered a decades-long truce — but then it’s also possible that Israel in reality has no desire to see a Palestinian state.

Of course it’s desirable that Hamas recognize Israel before negotiations. But is it essential? No.

Now, I could go on for hours shooting holes in Cohen's argument from a Middle East strategic perspective and quite frankly, my blood pressure would spike throughout it all. But all I will do is insert this (from Arlington Cemetary Net) for Mr. Cohen to read and remember:

Twenty-five years ago, a suicide bomber steered a truck loaded with the equivalent of six tons of TNT down the airport road in Beirut, Lebanon. He plowed into the four-story barracks where more than 300 U.S. troops from a U.N. peacekeeping mission slept and detonated what the FBI called the largest non-nuclear bomb in history.The explosion and fireball pulverized the concrete fortress, killing 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines. A second blast minutes later at the compound of the French peacekeeping force killed 58 more Western troops.

Mr. Cohen, that was Hezbollah that killed 241 American Marines and soldiers and sailors. And you call for America to recognize this terrorist group. You should be ashamed of yourself. Hell, you should shunned by every American on this planet.

Middle East Reality Check

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton grabbed headlines with an invitation to Iran to attend a conference on Afghanistan, but the significant Middle Eastern news last week came from Britain. It has “reconsidered” its position on Hezbollah and will open a direct channel to the militant group in Lebanon.

Speaking of violence, it’s worth recalling what Israel did in Gaza in response to sporadic Hamas rockets. It killed upward of 1,300 people, many of them women and children; caused damage estimated at $1.9 billion; and destroyed thousands of Gaza homes. It continues a radicalizing blockade on 1.5 million people squeezed into a narrow strip of land.At this vast human, material and moral price, Israel achieved almost nothing beyond damage to its image throughout the world. Israel has the right to hit back when attacked, but any response should be proportional and governed by sober political calculation. The Gaza war was a travesty; I have never previously felt so shamed by Israel’s actions.No wonder Hamas and Hezbollah are seen throughout the Arab world as legitimate resistance movements.It’s time to look at them again and adopt the new British view that contact can encourage Hezbollah “to move away from violence and play a constructive, democratic and peaceful role.”