Comments on: WaPo: Trust the terrorists, they’ll come around

By: Alan Furman

Alan Furman — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:39:15 +0000

“Two-state solution” is simply another (and equally meritorious) culture’s way of saying “one-state zero-Jew solution.”

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:37:23 +0000

Accepting the unacceptable

On Sept 14, 1993 the editors of the Washington Post opined in “A Handshake for Peace: A myth has arisen from the recent Mideast dazzle to the effect that Israel and the PLO could have made peace years and even…

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:00:09 +0000

Israel trusted the Palestinian Arabs at Oslo and we now see the result. It is up to the Arabs to earn any future trust from the Israelis, for there is no reason for Israel to extend the smallest amount of trust to such treacherous, murderous liars. Israel should put no trust in them until they have basically surrendered, disarmed and given up, explicitly and publically, their aims of destroying Israel and wiping out its Jewish inhabitants. And Israel should fight as necessary, since the Arab say they are at war with her and act on the statement. Ere Israel’s crown of sovereignty goes down there are (Arab) crowns to be broke.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:51:15 +0000

I read that editorial this morning – I had the same reaction you had, punctuated by almost gagging on my coffee and using words my daughter isn’t suppossed to hear me say. The WashPos editors are fortunate Hamas is an ocean away and not just across the Potomac from them.

NPR did a story this evening about Hamas’ campaigning in Gaza – I was shocked when the NPR reporter suggested that in spite of Hamas’ pronouncements to the Western media to the contrary, they really hadn’t changed and were not going to negotiate with Israel about anything.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:03:18 +0000

M.Y. wrote:

” They have not changed their charter. They have not softened their stance.”

Now, I realize this was about Hamas.

But, you know, those two statements are ALSO true about Fatah. In English, well French actually, Fatah says the part in it’s charter about liquidating Israel is ‘caduc’ … er … ‘Null and Void’.

But in Arabic there is no change at all.

… sigh …

Didn’t some literate personage once say something like those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it?

Fatah or Hamas or IJ or Hezbollah AQ or PFLP … they are all the SAME.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:53:12 +0000

I think that Sharon started defining boundaries because there is no trust.
There is no peace partner and there will not be peace in the short term.

By: Rachel Ann

Rachel Ann — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:46:47 +0000

Trust. Doesn’t trust have to be based on something? Normally, of course, but not when it comes to Israel, well, we just have to trust and give and hope and pray. And if something bad happens to us, well, sorry, it really is sad, but don’t react. Just try to trust again!

As in: at some point you’ll(Jews/Israel)all be dead and then we can be sad for a week.

At least that is the feeling I get.