The Case for Israel

Until the world acknowledges that the Arab refusal to accept the existence of Israel following the U.N. partition created an exchange of population that must now be deemed to be permanent, there will be no prospect of peace between the Arabs and Israel.

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?

from the very beginning the strategy of the Arab leadership has been to eliminate the existence of any Jewish state, and indeed any substantial Jewish population, in what is now Israel.

the view of many decent people, the Palestinian (and widespread Arab) support for the Nazis should have disqualified them from having much of a say in the postwar rearrangements,

Experience shows that when Israel did not respond firmly to Palestinian terrorism, more terrorism followed, and when Israel took appropriate military steps, the number and severity of terrorist attacks were reduced.

Although current polls suggest that most Palestinians and many Arabs around the world see a Palestinian state as a tactical first step toward the eventual destruction of Israel, the best hope for peace is that time and progress will change these numbers.

Arab rejection of Israel’s right to exist has long been the cause of the problem.

In addition, Barak offered the Palestinians a state with Arab Jerusalem as its capital and complete control over East Jerusalem and the Arab Quarter of the Old City, as well as the entire Temple Mount, despite its historic and religious significance to Jews. Israel would retain control over the Western Wall, which has no significance for Muslims. O

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