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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: June 21, 2007 |
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Fouad Ajami, the brilliant Arabist professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, chronicles the demise of the Palestinians in The New York Times.
"The Palestinian ruin was a long time in coming. No other national movement has had the indulgence granted the Palestinians over the last half-century, and the results can be seen in the bravado and the senseless violence, in the inability of a people to come to terms with their condition and their needs."
"It has long been a cherished legend of the Palestinians, and a proud claim, that they would not kill their own, that there would be no fratricide in their world. The cruelty we now see -- in both Gaza and the West Bank -- bears witness that the Palestinians have run through the consolations that had been there for them in a history of adversity."
"There is no way that a normal world could be had in the West Bank while Gaza goes under. There is no magic wand with which this Palestinian world could be healed and taught the virtues of realism and sobriety. No international peacekeeping force can bring order to the deadly streets and alleyways of Gaza. A population armed to the teeth and long in the throes of disorder can't be pacified by outsiders."
No Arabs wait for Palestine anymore; they have left the Palestinians to the ruin of their own history.... Arab poets used to write reverential verse in praise of the boys of the stones and the suicide bombers. Now the poetry has subsided, replaced by a silent recognition of the malady that afflicts the Palestinians. Except among the most bigoted and willful of Arabs, there is growing acknowledgment of the depth of the Palestinian crisis. And aside from a handful of the most romantic of Israelis, there is a recognition in that society, as well, of the malignancy of the national movement a stone's throw away.
Palestinian society has now gone where no "peace processors" or romantic poets dare tread.
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