If you want to encapsulate the utter failure of the Israeli Left to learn anything from the disaster of Oslo in one quote, this statement reported in Ha'aretz would be it.
As one official involved in the agreements put it, "As far as I'm concerned, it can be a dictatorship like it is
in Egypt, but if they can't provide security, there will be no accord."
The myopia of the Israeli Left is staggering. How exactly, is a Palestinian "dictatorship like Egypt" supposed to provide peace, when its can only remain in power by displacing the public's frustration with internal tyranny onto an external villain? But the Israeli Left's love of the Arab strongman - which caused it to overlook Oslo's fatal flaw - is still intact despite the misery it caused both Israelis and Palestinians in the past decade. And until they shake it, they are just as dangerous to the long-term hopes of peace as the most radical settler in his hilltop trailer.
No comments:
Post a Comment