One War

Joe Bell says this is no time for Israel, or the West, to back down before tyranny:

Israel cannot appease its enemies. Israel gave the Sinai back to Egypt in 1949 yet remained unwelcome in the Middle East. While the world community has often demanded Israel trade land for peace that strategy has never worked. Whenever Israel withdrew from territory it controlled it was viewed by its enemies as a sign of weakness. That is not good policy in a region where, as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak once said, “there is no mercy for the weak.”

Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, sent the message that Israel was tired and dispirited. Also, Israel left Gaza less than one year ago and the attacks continued.The enemies of freedom are not united under joint command and they do not share a common state or ideology, but they have a global, or at least a regional, reach and they share a common goal – conquest. America must understand there is only one war and it must reinvigorate its effort to rally the forces of freedom, at home and abroad, against a rising dark tide.

Israel should be the poster boy for appeasing terrorists; It doesn't work. Give them an inch and they'll take your life.