Brooks: After Gaza, What Next?

THE SIEGE OF LEBANON
AFTER GAZA, THE NEXT DOMINO?
By Peter Brooks, The New York Post

June 18, 2007 -- BEWARE: The Gaza Strip may be only the first dom ino to fall this summer in Iran and Syria's push to establish an arc of influence across the Middle East, stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Eastern Mediterranean. Lebanon, already teetering on the brink of instability, could easily be next.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06182007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_siege_of_lebanon_opedcolumnists_peter_brookes.htm

Land for Peace …or Land in Pieces?

Land for Peace …… or land in pieces?
By Seth Leibsohn

The news out of Gaza is actually not the latest history lesson that Munich-type land-for-peace propositions require us to restudy. What we need is an update to Baruch Spinoza. While nature may still very well abhor a vacuum, we now know beyond speculation that terrorism will thrive in one. Where once a democratic state “occupied” Gaza, a terrorist Fatah took over under the watchful eyes of the U.N. In less than two years, the even-more-radical Hamas blasted Fatah out of power and took over from there — in one of the bloodiest coups of the past decade. Now Hamas, with support from Iran, runs a mini-state on the border of Egypt and Israel.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDNjZjY0YjZjNzJkZmUwZjUwNWE5YzdiOTU5ZGU3NTk=