In recent weeks, George Will has written two excellent columns about Israel and the Middle East:
Netanyahu, the anti-Obama and
Netanyahu’s warning.
Today, he presents Skip the lecture on Israel’s “risks for peace”:
The intifada was launched by the late Yasser Arafat — terrorist and Nobel Peace Prize winner — after the July 2000 Camp David meeting, during which then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to cede control of all of Gaza and more than 90 percent of the West Bank, with small swaps of land to accommodate the growth of Jerusalem suburbs just across the 1949 armistice line.
Israelis are famously fractious, but the intifada produced among them a consensus that the most any government of theirs could offer without forfeiting domestic support is less than any Palestinian interlocutor would demand. Furthermore, the intifada was part of a pattern. As in 1936 and 1947, talk about partition prompted Arab violence.
Those two paragraphs are loaded, and there’s a lot more packed into the op-ed. It’s a really an excellent capsule of everything that’s happened since Oslo (and more!)
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
I agree. Mr Will’s article should be required reading for all the anti-Israel historical revisionists in the media and elsewhere. Thanks for calling attention to it.
Sadly, George Will’s columns will have no effect upon the Jew haters. Just look at the majority of the readers’ comments. The “sophisticated” haters go into great detail explaining that their criticism of Israel isn’t antisemitism. The careless ones simply spew their hatred openly. Mr. Will’s essays have no effect upon either group.