In this typically uncompromising piece by tough- guy scholar Daniel Pipes in Aish.com, he explains why the best time for Israel to negotiate peace with its Palestinian enemies is after military victory. Of course, when the enemy is your neighbor, it's not easy to define military victory, but still, the man's got powerful facts.
When Palestinians still lived under Israeli control, pre-Oslo accords, they had benefited from the rule of law and a growing economy, independent of international welfare. They enjoyed functioning schools and hospitals; they traveled without checkpoints and had free access to Israeli territory. They even founded several universities. Terrorism declined as acceptance of Israel increased. Oslo then brought Palestinians not peace and prosperity, but tyranny, failed institutions, poverty, corruption, a death cult, suicide factories, and Islamist radicalization. Yasir Arafat had promised to build his new dominion into a Middle Eastern Singapore, but the reality he ruled became a nightmare of dependence, inhumanity, and loathing, more akin to Liberia or the Congo.
1 comment:
excellent advice, tighten the blockade on gaza even further so that even the bare necessities of life dont get it, extend that policy to the west bank and then invade and occupy south lebanon
too bad Prof Pipes of Philadelphia's children wont have to serve in the army that pursues that policy.
read t friedman in the nyt for a more sensible approach
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