Accept Our Peace Plan Or Else

The Arab peace plan could be Israel's last chance to live in a "sea of peace" and should not be squandered, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.

"This initiative simply says to Israel 'leave the occupied territories and you will live in a sea of peace that begins in Nouakchott and ends in Indonesia'," he said, referring to the Mauritanian capital in West Africa and the southeast Asian country that is the world's most populous Muslim country.

"If this initiative is destroyed, I don't believe there will be another opportunity in the future like this," he said in an interview with Reuters and two other news outlets.

So, what do we have here? Since when as the Islamic world been a sea of peace? It's blood soaked at every turn, and Abu Mazen has the audacity to claim that the violence will end throughout the world if Israel gives in. Maybe audacity is not the right word since he can make any claim he wants and it goes unchallenged by the media.

Of course, there's the repeated use of the term sea of peace. It doesn't mean what you think it means. Arab legions have long sought to throw the Israelis into the sea. That's the kind of peace that Abu Mazen is hoping for, and this latest diplomatic endeavor is a step in that direction. Abu Mazen is simply recycling the old rhetorical devices that other Arabs have used against Israel.

Then, there's the veiled threats against Israel if it doesn't agree to the terms laid out by the Palestinians.

Meryl Yourish has more on the latest diplomatic efforts by the Islamists and Arabs to throw Israel into the sea. Of course, the media is complicit in this mess, by distorting the reality of the Saudi Plan proposal and that there has been absolutely no change in the stance by the Palestinians or Islamists on Israel's existence.

Lovely stuff.