From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 15:08:05 MDT
[Blunderov] A real lambasting article. But it does offer a light at the end
of the tunnel.
Best Regards
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2004-05-19.htm
History's Fools
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In the wake of Iraq, the term "neo-conservative" may come to mean "dangerous
innocence about world realities"...
...Last week, on the NPR public affairs program On Point, Ian Lustig, a
Middle East scholar, saw another filament of hope emerging from the ruin of
Iraq: The US may be so desperate to recoup a measure of good will in the
Arab world that it will force a settlement between Israel and the
Palestinians.
</excerpt>
<excerpt>
But desperation brings clarity. National crisis can override
special-interest politics. Israel could still build its wall-only within its
pre-1967 borders. Perhaps a Palestinian state on contiguous territory on the
West Bank, its people barred from work in Israel, its economy petrified,
would confront its Islamist terrorists. But even if it did not, "Fortress
Israel" would be as secure behind its wall as its history with the
Palestinians will permit. And the US would have taken the one step, perhaps
the only step it can take now, to tamp down the fury of the Arab street, to
deny a propaganda instrument to the denizens of the Arab "basement" itching
to perpetrate a new September 11, and to strengthen the forces of reform in
the Arab world. If there is a path to democracy in the Middle East, it
begins in Jerusalem, not Baghdad.
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