Great Falls Tribune · Great Falls, MT · 4 March 2008
CP-2008-026
No: End-of-term effort undermines U.S. anti-terror message
Transcribed from the clipping
WASHINGTON — No issue of public policy is hidden in more layers of mythology than the Arab-Israeli conflict.
For decades, conventional wisdom has held that the path to peace runs through Jerusalem, that Arab hostility toward the Jewish state is rooted in sympathy with the Palestinian cause, and that Israeli concessions to the Palestinians will lead to not just Israeli-Palestinian peace but also to reduced tensions across the region.
A myth dies hard, especially when so many nations have grown accustomed to it or, in the case of Arab states, exploit it by diverting attention from the problems within their sclerotic societies. But this myth is not just wrong; it’s dangerous to U.S. national security.
President Bush’s pledge to seek an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by year-end is guaranteed to fail because the effort lacks: ■ Strong national leaders on both sides who can cut a deal. ■ Populations that trust each other enough to enforce it. ■ Neighboring states that will support it.
Meanwhile, Bush’s push to surmount the insurmountable will undercut his anti-terror message and his commitment to promoting freedom and democracy as an antidote to terror. It also will distract him from the more urgent global challenges that stretch from Iraq and Iran to Russia and China.
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Tagline as printed: ‘Lawrence J. Haas is vice president of the Committee on the Present Danger. Readers may write to him at the Committee on the Present Danger, 1146 19th Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20036.’
The cartoon is the thing worth looking at: the Palestinian figure is drawn as a racial caricature and is the only Palestinian presence on a page asking whether there should be peace with Palestinians. Neither commentator on the page is Palestinian.
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"No: End-of-term effort undermines U.S. anti-terror message," Great Falls Tribune, 4 March 2008. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2008-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2008-026
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