-Caveat Lector-
October 10, 2000
The downfall of Israel?
By George Will
WASHINGTON--Although weary from 52 years of nationhood without
peace, realistic Israelis understand the causation behind this
correlation: Today Israel has the most accommodating diplomacy in
its history, and is in the most perilous position in its history.
Israel's position is worse than in 1973, when it was attacked by
concerted Arab armies, worse than when Egypt mobilized in 1967,
worse than in 1948, when Arabs rejected the U.N. partition of
Palestine that Israel accepted, and sent armies to kill Israel.
Israel's position is worse today because then the threats were
military, manageable by an Israel confident of the legitimacy of
its positions. Now just 17 months of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's
diplomacy have demoralized Israel by delegitimizing all its
previous principles, and destroying the absolute prerequisite for
successful negotiations--the insistence that something is
nonnegotiable. Even a Barak ultimatum is, inevitably,
penultimate.
Barak may be the most calamitous leader any democracy has had. He
risks forfeiting his nation's existence. Bad leadership during
the 1930s caused France to suffer swift defeat and four years of
humiliation, but not annihilation.
Barak has made territorial concessions no previous government
contemplated, including the sparsely populated and strategically
vital Jordan valley. He has thrown away longstanding U.S. support
for an undivided Jerusalem. Under Barak, Israel's rights in its
own capital are negotiable. And what has Barak's policy bought?
Only Arafat's promise to reject violence, which is akin to
Hitler's promise, after Munich, to make no more territorial
claims in Europe.
Barak's attempt to satiate Arafat with a feast of Israeli
retreats has even produced the idea of giving the United Nations,
that nest of anti-Israeli regimes, control of the Temple Mount.
The consequence of all this may be fulfillment of the undisguised
aim of Israel's "partner in peace," the Palestine Authority,
whose maps, textbooks, television broadcasts, and public places,
treat Israel as nonexistent.
Israel's multiplying problems include the Western media. For
example, a Los Angeles Times story on a Palestinian officer
engaged in the fighting carried this headline: "A militia
commander in Nablus, though obedient to Arafat, sees armed
struggle as crucial." The word "though" conveys the media's
permanent presumption that Arafat eschews violence and desires
peace. Yet he constantly promises a jihad against Jerusalem.
At Camp David, Arafat reportedly told President Clinton that he,
Arafat, speaks for a billion Muslims. This inaccurate claim
accurately casts the issue: This is not a dispute between
Israelis and Palestinians about land, it is a clash of
civilizations and is not solvable by splitting differences.
The mentality of those Israelis who believe all differences are
splitable was displayed on Sunday when former Israeli Prime
Minister Shimon Peres, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the
peace currently convulsing Israel, spoke to ABC's "This Week." He
said the peace process cannot be dead. Why? "Nobody can kill the
peace process because we need it like air." So Arafat can
punctuate the "peace process" as often as he likes with as much
war as he likes, and Israelis who think as Peres does will always
return, gasping gratefully for air.
Besides, Peres explained, Arafat no longer runs "a terroristic
organization." Rather, he "is responsible for an administration
which is 120,000 people strong. ... It is one thing to be a head
of a revolution, and it is another thing to be a head of a state
in being." But what if it is a revolutionary state devoted to
devouring Israel?
Peres is puzzled. If Arafat had behaved like a bourgeoisie
politician, Palestinians "could have escaped the poverty" they
still suffer, and could have built "a modern life." But Peres is
hopeful: "If somebody would tell you in 1944 that within one year
you can have a different Europe, that you can have peace, I think
everyone would be laughing. But look what happened. ..."
Yes, look. What happened one year after the worst year in Jewish
history was the defeat of those vowing to eradicate the Jews.
As the 52-year (so far) war for the destruction of Israel
continued last week, a cleric leading prayers in al-Aqsa mosque
enjoined the faithful to "eradicate the Jews from Palestine."
When Israeli soldiers pulled a wounded policeman away from St.
Stephens Gate in Jerusalem, Palestinians, taught from
Holocaust-denying and anti-Semitic textbooks, publications and
broadcasts that the Palestinian Authority falsely promised to
eliminate, chanted "Slaughter the Jews." Thousands of Jordanians
marched in Amman chanting "Death to the Jews." When Hitler
threatened "the destruction of European Jewry," sophisticates,
searching, as sophisticates do, for nuances, wondered, What do
you suppose he meant?
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