Sometimes, Violence Really Is the Answer

This is so because the case against Israel currently being made on university campuses, in the media, and throughout the world relies on willful distortions of the historical record, beginning with the first arrival of Europeans in Palestine near the end of the nineteenth century and continuing throughout the U.N. partition, the establishment of th

“Palestinian casualties play in their favor, and Israeli casualties play in their favor. Non-violence doesn’t pay.”

Palestinian propagandists understand and exploit the reality that decent people become outraged at the killing of a child and often do not pause to move the blame beyond the side that fired the fatal shot toward the side that deliberately placed the child in harm’s way.

From the perspective of Israel (and pretty much every world leader who has studied this topic) the solution cannot include the return of 5.6 million people to a country of 9 million people. It must include an “end of demands.” And it must affirm Israel’s right to exist in safety and security.