Review of the News
Sometimes it’s hard to get through the newspapers. These make it easier:
“For Israel, It’s Simple: No Choice” by Ze’ev Chefetz in The New York Daily News (3/30)
“Yasser Arafat: Enemy of Peace” Editorial in The New York Daily News (3/30)
“The 1930s, Again: A Hard Rain is Going to Fall,” (3/25) and “Postmodern Palestine: The New Amorality in the Middle East,” (3/29) by Victor Davis Hansen on National Review On Line.
“Struggle Puts a Premium on Being Anti-Jew” by Mark Steyn in the (UK) Daily Telegraph (3/30)
Sometimes it’s hard to get through the newspapers. These make it easier:
“For Israel, It’s Simple: No Choice” by Ze’ev Chefetz in The New York Daily News (3/30)
“Yasser Arafat: Enemy of Peace” Editorial in The New York Daily News (3/30)
“The 1930s, Again: A Hard Rain is Going to Fall,” (3/25) and “Postmodern Palestine: The New Amorality in the Middle East,” (3/29) by Victor Davis Hansen on National Review On Line.
“Struggle Puts a Premium on Being Anti-Jew” by Mark Steyn in the (UK) Daily Telegraph (3/30)
“The Killing Process” Editorial in the (Canada) National Post (3/28)
“Between Bombers and Bombed, Where’s the Choice?” by Bill Murchison on townhall.com (3/26) asks, “Whom would you want living next door — industrious, generally honest people who keep noses and neighborhoods clean, or people ready to blow themselves up, and you along with them?”
“U.S. Should not Impede Israel’s Justifiable War,” Editorial in the Mobile (AL) Register (3/30)
“How to Achieve Peace in the Middle East” Editorial in The Wall Street Journal (3/29) notes, “The notion that peace in the Middle East runs through Jerusalem is an illusion… The truth is the reverse. … The path to a calmer Middle East runs through Baghdad.”
“How Arafat Raised an Entire Generation to Murder,” by Charles Krauthammer in The Washington Post (3/29)
“The Post-Arafat Era” Editorial in The Montreal Gazette (3/28). “Either Yasser Arafat can stop suicide bombings… or he cannot. Either way, he has become utterly irrelevant and should be swept off the Middle Eastern chessboard as the toppled pawn he is… For decades, this newspaper has said that the only acceptable solution is a negotiated one. But a fundamental characteristic of negotiators is that their commitments will be honoured by the populations they represent… In the murk and gore of the Middle East, it’s increasingly clear that whoever is capable of stopping this carnage has no wish to do so.”
And finally,
“Arafat’s War,” by Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal (3/29): The man of Tulkarm did not descend from the sky: He walked straight out of the culture of incitement let loose on the land, a menace hovering over Israel, a great Palestinian and Arab refusal to let that country be, to cede it a place among the nations. He partook of the culture all around him — the glee that greets those brutal deeds of terror, the cult that rises around the martyrs and their families… The leaders of the Palestinian Authority, most notably Yasser Arafat, the figure at the center of this cruel whirlwind, would issue a tepid condemnation and then let the world know that the “armed struggle” and the shahids, the martyrs, are writing glorious chapters in the annals of the history of that national movement. Blood is a terrible affliction, and a national movement that succumbs to its intoxication will drown in its own radicalism… By omission and commission, Mr. Arafat feeds this cult of terror.”