The Case for Israel

But it also follows from the undisputed fact that Palestinian leaders are blameworthy for their repeated rejection of the two-state solution and for the resulting escalation of violence, that the two sides should not be treated in an even-handed manner. To reward rejection and violence with even-handedness is to encourage such conduct.

The Palestinians never sought statehood when they were occupied by Jordan and Egypt. Historically they wanted to be part of Syria. The claim of Palestinian statehood began as a tactic to eliminate the Jewish state of Israel.

What would otherwise have been a political dispute, subject to a political compromise resolution, now became an absolute religious prohibition that was not amenable to any compromise: according to the grand mufti of Jerusalem, it would violate Islamic law for even one inch of Palestine to be controlled by Jews.

We should favor those who seek peace over those who have shown a preference for war. We should favor those who are not seeking to destroy a U.N. member state over those who are.

Extermination, not the creation of a difficult refugee population, was the goal of the Arab attack on Jewish civilian populations.

falsely assume that terrorism is part of a cycle of violence rather than a tactic of first choice that has worked for the Palestinians.

Israel is the only nation in the Mideast that operates under the rule of law. Its record on human rights compares favorably to that of any country in the world that has faced comparable dangers. Its

Why then are decent people today afraid to call evil by its name? Why do so many insist on finding moral equivalence? And why do so many people describe the worst of evils—the deliberate targeting of children—with positive-sounding terms like “freedom fighting,” while describing reasonable efforts to prevent these Nazi-like evils as Nazism itself?

The mufti was apparently planning to return to Palestine in the event of a German victory and to construct a death camp modeled after Auschwitz, near Nablus.