Comments on: When you’re serious about the Middle East, stop living in the past https://www.yourish.com/2009/11/08/9319 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Gary Rosen https://www.yourish.com/2009/11/08/9319/comment-page-1#comment-38354 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:08:21 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9319#comment-38354 Israel is not perfect – no humans are – but overwhelmingly the fault for the continuation of this conflict for over 60 years now lies with the Arabs, not Israel. This goes right back to the founding of Israel when Jews accepted the partition of Palestine while Arabs rejected it and initiated a war of annihilation against Israel. After the war it was the Arabs who refused to establish a Palestinian state even though the West Bank and Gaza were still in their hands. The non-existence of a Palestinian state is 100% the fault of Arabs, zero percent the fault of Israel.

]]> By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2009/11/08/9319/comment-page-1#comment-38353 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:41:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9319#comment-38353 It’s a side point, SD, but I liked that part about how everything was sort of moving the right way until Sharon made his “provocative” act. That act was walking onto the Temple Mount. No one claimed that he did anything disrespectful or said anything disrespectful, entered the Dome of the Rock or the Al-Aqsa Mosque, merely that he walked on the mount.

No one seriously suggests that Arabs should be barred from certain areas of the historic Land of Israel, but the idea that there are areas that should be judenrein is simply taken as natural and hardly something over which to negotiate.

Even Friedman must, just must, know that Arafat was waiting for an excuse to touch off the intifada. It was much too sudden and well-organized to be spontaneous.

But it’s Israel and Israelis who caused it. Must be sensitive to the Arabs’ very delicate sensitivities…but Jewish sensitivities? Who cares?

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