TIT FOR TAT

So Barak Obama has wised up to the Palestinians’ political games and is finally learning his modern Middle-East History 101.

After going to bat for Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas by playing bad cop with Israel concerning her communities in Judea and Samaria, he is now being forced to reconsider this illogical foreign policy.

Obama pushed for Israel to lift road blocks and she did. Obama wanted to have Palestinians prisoners released from Israeli jails and they were: all along, though Abbas kept playing the naive new president pushing for a settlement freeze. Eventually Obama got one -- of sorts -- from Israeli PM Netanyahu.

To get this done, Obama was forced to foment the worst relations between the heretofore strongest of Allies.

But, when the Palestinians were called upon to pony up and start direct negotiations, the PA preconditions continue to flow like an unchecked river. Saeb Erekat and Mahmoud Abbas now refuse to start negotiations until Israel accepts the borders of June 5th, 1967!

President Obama must be banging his head against an Oval Office wall, as he discovers that, like so many before him, he has been burned by an ungrateful Palestinian leadership.

Obama has learned that Mahmoud Abbas would rather spend his time backing those who wish to delegitimize Israel than making peace with the Jewish State. So what can Israel and her great friend President Barack Hussein Obama do?

In Israel’s case it is a simple matter: we have given and the Palestinians -- as always -- have not. Obama and his Democratic party are now faced with a dire situation in American politics and Israel must use this to her advantage.

Israel must play this smart and Bibi must do all he can to help President Obama.

Although there are no more political presents for us to give to the President concerning concessions, we must do all we can to not create road blocks for him.

If the President fails to rein in Abbas, Fayyad and Erekat, it must be made clear to him that Israel will start naming her own preconditions to negotiations.

If the Palestinians wish to continue playing hardball, Israel can easily demand as a precondition a Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish State -- something which, as unbelievable as it is, she has NEVER done!

Next, Israel must make it clear to Obama that those who attempt to boycott or harm her citizens in any way, whether physical or financial, will pay a price.

Israel must make it clear to Obama that she views the boycott of Israel, the attempts to have her classified as an Apartheid State and the drive to have her delegitimized as direct attacks on her safety and that of her citizens.

For every organization or country that boycotts Israel she will in response build a roadblock cutting off Palestinian civilian centers. That’s right, all the road blocks that have been removed should selectively be replaced each time someone or some company gives in to the obscene boycott movement.

Each time this happens the IDF should inform the Palestinian community that the roadblock, or whatever measure Israel decides to take to hurt Palestinian daily life, is a direct result of the boycott against Israel. In fact, they should name each road block after the company or organization which divested itself of support for Israel!

President Obama must know that Israel will no longer tolerate the PA and their thugs thinking they can get away with cutting off Israel’s freedoms and financial well being through boycott.

Those who wish to delegitimize, demonize and attack Israel must know the price won’t just fall on Israel. There will be the English Presbyterian road block, the Elvis Costello check point, the Gil Scott Herron blockade.

President Obama can start by calling up his old pal Rashid Khalidi and demand that he stop funding -- at once -- a flotilla aimed at supporting the Hamas regime in GAZA. Khalidi’s borderline treacherous attempts at creating an American Gaza flotilla will not look good for the President or the Democrats.

At the end of the day President Obama must apply to Mahmoud Abbas the same pressure he did to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: he must demand an immediate return to direct negotiations with NO preconditions from either side.