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You can't make peace with a violent people
By Zionist.com    March 7, 2007


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No nation on earth can make peace with a neighbor steeped in violent tendencies, that teaches its future generations to hate and seek death while doing as much harm as possible to its enemies.

And yet, the world demands that Israel do just that -- make peace with a Palestinian Arab society that cannot even keep from killing each other.

All the nice declarations of unity and brotherhood aside, the Palestinians are demonstrating for everyone that the only language they know and understand is the language of violence. Even when speaking among themselves.

This shouldn't be a difficult concept for the West to grasp.

During World War II, the Allies battled two societies that were likewise taught to see violence as the answer to every question: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

Back then, the West understood that merely entering into peace negotiations with these enemies would not be enough, it would not alter their violent character.

No, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan had to be completely re-educated.

Why does anyone think the Arab Middle East (and the Palestinian in particular), which has for decades taught its people to view Israel as a cancer that must be eradicated, is any different?


Reprinted with permission from Jerusalem Newswire.

Views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of israelinsider.


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