Gail-Tz., Middle East Peace Envoy

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia must have been using a strange blend in his hookah when he said that "Israel should give back the land seized 40 years ago" in exchange for peace.

First, let's discuss diction here. The land was not seized. It was won or acquired in a war. Has any historian ever noted England's King George III asking George Washington to give back the Thirteen Original Colonies after the War of Independence? How about Mexico asking the United States to return its gains after the Spanish American War? Though considering how things have been going, it wouldn't have made much of a difference anyway.

The bottom line is that nations do not return land won in a war, and the land is not "seized" as in stolen; it has been won and annexed fair and square.

This is why our current President, who seems like a nice enough fellow but has been operating along the lines of Alice in Wonderland, should not pressure the Israelis into dismantling their settlements because they have the right to annex land won in a war. But it is not the settlements that are bothering the Arabs and much of the free world anyway; it is the fact that there are more than enough Jews to hold a Mah Jong game anywhere. The Jews could set up a homeland in Alaska, and the Arabs would walk, fly and trod there just to say that they are annoying them and are at the root of their problems.

Further down the watering hole, Alice also praised Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, for standing fast in unity talks with Hamas, like any rational person would want to stand in unity with an outfit whose chief goals are victimhood, reproduction or munitions.

Let's look at what other presidents would have done. George Washington tried negotiating with the British, but when he realized that they were dead set on their course, he set out along his path and a great nation came to be born. How about Abraham Lincoln? He tried talking to General Davis and Lee, but when they set off along the path of slavery, he'd had enough and fired the first shot on Fort Sumter. The end result, probably had something to do with how Obama became president, but that will be for a later discussion. The bottom line is that there is a time and place for everything. There is a time for talk, for making nice; there is a time for being namby-pamby and a time for making war. And this is it.

Alas, the ever-loving peacenicks at Hamas have managed to tick off more than the Israelis. In an effort to rein them in, the Palestinian police recently raided a compound and bumped off about six of them, and true to form, the terrorist outfit promised "tough and harsh reprisal."

I may have been wrong about things before, but my prediction is that someday one of their air heads will wind up pressing the wrong button and will turn the whole lot of them into fish chum.