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Then as Now; Now as Then » Publications » Family Security Matters: "When you enter an Arab bazaar you are expected to bargain. Not to do so is almost considered an insult to the Arab trader. More than that it marks you as almost worthless and beneath contempt.

The same attitude exists towards the non-Arab and non-Moslem who enters into negotiations with an Arab interlocutor. If you come seeking genuine negotiations with an open heart and a willingness to make concessions as a tangible expression of your desire to reach an honorable agreement, you are considered a fool and, again, worthy only of contempt. Thus Binyamin Netanyahu comes to Washington, DC in order to sit with Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian Authority along with the Jordanian Kinglet Abdullah, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama on September 2, 2010. It will likely be a fatal trap for the Israeli leader.

Predictably, the Arab side will call for pre-conditions even though Netanyahu has been assured by the Obama regime that there will be no such demands permitted. But Abbas, coached by the Arab League, has already demanded that the freeze on Israeli building within parts of Jerusalem be extended throughout all of Jerusalem and within Judea and Samaria (otherwise known as the West Bank by its Jordanian name) and that it must continue indefinitely – by which Abbas means permanently. The crafty bazaar traders know only too well how to bamboozle the innocent non-Arab. Obama will, of course, find an equally duplicitous formula to accept the Arab demand and Israel will be brutally pressured accordingly as it has been time and time again.