The best proof of Ross’s point is that Arafat did not even offer a counterproposal to Israel’s offer. He simply rejected it and ordered preparation for renewed terrorism.

Those who absurdly claim that the Jewish refugees who immigrated to Palestine in the last decades of the nineteenth century were the “tools” of European imperialism must answer the following question: For whom were these socialists and idealists working? Were they planting the flag of the hated czar of Russia or the anti-Semitic regimes of Poland

The Palestinian refugee issue has always been a ploy designed to turn Israel into a Palestinian state, and Arafat’s rejection of the generous Barak offer demonstrated this with little ambiguity.

He was “Palestine’s national leader”12 when he made his alliance with Hitler and played an active role in the Holocaust.

Nazi program, up until 1941, called for Jews to be expelled from Europe but not necessarily murdered. The “final solution” became the solution of choice for the Nazis only when it became clear that there was nowhere for the Jews of Europe to go, except to the gas chambers and killing fields.

Although the Palestinian demand for the destruction of Israel and the transfer of its Jewish population—as articulated in its covenant—is far less compelling from a moral perspective than the complaints of other stateless and occupied people, such as the Tibetans, the Kurds, and the Basques, the PLO’s resort to global terrorism has leapfrogged

This was done purely to try to cast doubt on Israel’s legitimacy despite the desperate need in some underpopulated Arab countries, such as Syria and Jordan, for more workers to serve the labor-intensive economic needs of those nations.

Given the expressed goal of these increasingly popular radical groups, those who urge the eventual creation of a Palestinian state, as I do, cannot ignore the realistic possibility that such a state might well continue to support, encourage, or at the very least tolerate continuing terrorism against Israeli civilians in an effort, futile as it

demonstrate how the international community’s unfair treatment of Israel is itself a barrier to peace, let me pose an important what if question.