Forget peace
David Solway has it right. Israel’s survival, however, is indeed possible, even if peace is not. But it should begin to act in certain demonstrable ways. It must demobilize its homegrown Quislings and intellectual vandals, with argument, reason or, if need be, the application of legal force where appropriate. There is no excuse for hostile NGOs spreading harmful propaganda on the European dime. There is no justification for state-supported leftist professors brazenly undermining the very country that pays their salaries. It serves no purpose to cosset Muslim groups and firebrands who seek to bring down the state, or to turn the other cheek when rockets fall on its civilian communities. In addition, Israel must take control of the explanatory narrative, or, in a current slang expression, “change the diskette.” And the debacle of military unpreparedness and poor leadership, as during the 2006 Lebanon War, must be avoided at all costs.Read the whole thing. It should sound familiar to those of you who are regular readers.
Forget peace. It’s not going to happen. And it is not a risk worth taking since unchecked sentimentality is the most ruthless of serial killers. Camp David is the inevitable precursor of the Intifada. The situation is admittedly distressing but it is by no means unrelievedly desolate. For Israel will prevail if it succeeds in preserving a reasonable degree of internal unity, and remains confident, steadfast, realistic, and, above all, vigilant.
Labels: David Solway, Middle East peace process, two-state solution
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:27 AM
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Israel is making progress towards some tentative steps towards that horizon: investigation of NGOs, the demise of the Labor Party and a realistic attitude among top government about the fact no progress is going to take place with the Palestinians as long as the latter reject talks and real peace with Israel. Israel needs to do more: learn to fight and win the war against its delegitimization being waged against it by the Arabs and their overseas supporters. Israel has a bright future and a reasonably high degree of internal unity. It does have its share of problems but they are less than most countries have and in particular it has weathered the global recession a good deal better than the Arab countries, which been faced with upheavals due to economic mismanagement and endemic corruption.
One can forget about a formal peace. But Israel has survived despite its absence for 62 years and will survive for many more without it.
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