"Take Risks For Peace"? I Think We Get The Idea

Daled Amos
19 August '10
Posted before Shabbat

George Will writes about the need-to-take-risks-for-peace lecture that Israel often gets:

In the intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of U.S. population, that would be 42,000, approaching the toll of America’s eight years in Vietnam. During the onslaught, which began 10 Septembers ago, Israeli parents sending two children to a school would put them on separate buses to decrease the chance that neither would return for dinner. Surely most Americans can imagine, even if their tone-deaf leaders cannot, how grating it is when those leaders lecture Israel on the need to take “risks for peace.”

How much more grating is it when risks for peace such as the Disengagement result in nothing more than years of having thousands of rockets fired at Israeli civilians.

Besides the current administration has delivering that lecture...

Obama, July 2010: I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu wants peace. I think he’s willing to take risks for peace.

Sometimes the lecture includes both Israel and the Palestinian Arabs as well:

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