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Geneva Schmeneva
Jpost; registration required. Hat tip LGF. EFL.When it became clear the Palestinians would not live up to the road map, the paper of record found an alternative. âWhat is truly momentous" about the Geneva Accord, according to The New York Times, "is that Israelis and Palestinians of good will have... declar[ed] in concrete terms how their conflict can end." And ytrams will fly by flapping their forelegs. But lots of people, including prime minister Ehud Barak and president Bill Clinton, have declared how the conflict can end. The problem is not the terms of a peaceful two-state solution, but rather that the Palestinians are not yet ready to make peace with Israel. They want the whole kit and caboodle, plus another Holocaust. They will reject any peace accord that does not call for the slaughter of the Jews. The moral reason underlying the Palestiniansâ rejection of peace is that there is no justice to a Jewish state here because there is no Jewish people whose ancestors lived in the land; there are only colonial invaders. Recently they have demanded that Great Britain apologize for the Balfour Declaration, which was implemented by the League of Nationsâs decision that Palestine should become a Jewish homeland because of the Jewsâ ancient connection with the land of Israel and their need for a homeland. In other words, the Palestinians insist that the idea of a Jewish homeland in the area is a crime against Palestinians - although they donât like to recognize that it was a "crime" committed by the League of Nations - well before the Holocaust. They donât like to remember that fact so they forbid it. Their practical consideration for continuing the war against Israel is partly that their leaders do not represent their people, and partly that they still think they can use terror to destroy Israel as a Jewish state. The latter is because they are supported by the Arab and Muslim worlds and by Western Europe, and have hope held out to them by the State Department and prominent Israelis and other Jews. We certainly should be reluctant to decide that someone who says he wants peace - and authorizes members of his government to negotiate what purports to be a "model" peace agreement - really is only using deception to weaken his enemy. But Yasser Arafat has such a long record of agreeing to peace while teaching war to his children and promoting terror that we need to ask whether this declaration about ending the conflict is real. If the Arafish is serious about ending the conflict, Iâm a lattice tree.
Posted by: Atrus 2003-12-10 |
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