'Demography' Bollocks Animates the Left's Peace Push

In the past, writes Caroline Glick, Israel's Left has styled itself as the happy-dappy, hopey-changey faction, the folks who efferversce with fizzy, giddy dreams about the "peace" that lies just over the rainbow. Now that the harsh reality of an intractable jihad has set in and put something of a damper on their par-tay, Glick says the Left has replaced "hope" with "mope":

...By the time the peace process was a year old, the image of the suicide bomber had begun to eclipse the image of the balloon-festooned peace the Left sought to embody.

It was at this time that the Left could have been expected to reconsider its commitment to the peace process. But that is not what happened. The Left maintained absolute allegiance to the phony peace process. It simply ditched hope.

Quietly but relentlessly, the Left replaced hope for a better future with fear of a terrible future. Specifically, Leftist leaders like Haim Ramon began threatening their countrymen with national demographic destruction.

Ramon seized upon falsified Palestinian demographic forecasts. He and his comrades used the data - which inflated the number of Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip by 50 percent - to threaten their countrymen with encroaching demographic doom.

True, transferring land to the PLO had turned out to be a very bad idea. True life had been better and safer before the fake peace process.

But, the Left warned, if we didn't retreat to the 1949 armistice lines anyway, Jews would become a minority in our country within 15 years.

It took much longer for the demographic time bomb to be exposed as a dud than for the peace fantasy to explode. Indeed, Ramon's Kadima Party still bases its surrender platform on the phony PLO population data...

Having been exposed as a dud years ago--by Yoram Ettinger, among others--has the Left moved on from the time bomb delusion? Heck, no! Why, even an American hopeychanger has glommed on to it as an excuse to claim it's now or never for "peace" between Jews and intransigent Islamic supremacists (a heading that covers both Hamas and Abbas). This bit from a Reuters report about Obama's UN address last week reveals that the Left's pernicious demography argument is alive and kicking:

Obama touted the direct negotiations his administration has pursued between Israelis and Palestinians.

"Last year, I pledged my best efforts to support the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, as part of a comprehensive peace between Israel and all of its neighbors. We have traveled a winding road over the last 12 months, with few peaks and many valleys."

He scoffed at pessimism over the process and warned of the alternative if there is no peace agreement, saying the "hard realities of demography will take hold."

If you begin with a false premise--that true peace, peace as the West understands it, is possible with those who view Jewish sovereignty through an Islamic lens; that a harsh demographic reality is in the offing--you will inevitably bollocks things up, as Obama is doing quite well, thank you very much.