Monday, February 23, 2009

Does anyone truly believe that Israel would continue war if the Arabs accepted Israel as a Jewish state?

The time has long passed for the world to face reality about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Undoubtedly, it will continue to refuse to do so for reasons of political correctness, anti-Semitism and simple blindness.

Assume for the purposes of analysis that the Palestinians and their financiers truly accepted the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Assume that they were willing to accept the West Bank and Gaza as a Palestinian state with no plan to use it to destroy Israel. Does anyone truly think that Israelis would continue to fight a war against the Palestinians under such circumstances?

Peace would occur the moment the Palestinians accepted the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Only the continued intransigence of Arabs in not accepting the existence of Israel prevents true peace. Until that changes, lasting peace cannot occur.

Those who want peace between Arab and Israeli need to persuade the Arabs to accept Israel's existence rather than lecturing Israel about the need for peace negotiations.

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