Is Peace With The Palestinians Possible?

So the question of the day. Is "peace in our time" between Israel and the Palestinians possible? Harry Weber doesn't believe so and I tend to agree with his assessment.

The Palestinians have had everything they demanded offered to them - in Oslo in 1993 - yet they rejected it. All of their demands were to be fulfilled in return for the recognition of Israel's right to exist in the Middle East. But Arafat and his cronies showed their hand unequivocally at the time, refusing to give up the written goal of pushing the Jews back into the sea.

As long as Arafat and the Koranic literalists are running the show, nothing will change. Israel is an affront to the fifteenth century interpretation of Islam. Free Jews, with their own nation and their city on the hill, Jerusalem, are absolutely evil and must be eliminated from the landscape.

Terrorism by the Arabs and Palestinians against the Jews has been a fact of life in the region, even before the creation of Israel. And things are getting worse, not better. The Palestinians are now objecting to UN resolutions introduced by Israel to help protect Jewish children. They claim it is too political, despite the fact that it very closely copies the one that was passed to protect Palestinian children a few days earlier.

The Palestinians have still yet to learn respect for the lives and rights to life of the Israelis. Until that happens, until the Palestinians show even the slightest bit of concern, "peace in our time" is as much a pipedream as it was at Munich in 1938.

And we can just look back at the experience of Neville Chamberlain to see how that worked out. You cannot appease a nation or a people with designs on imperialism. And Israel is viewed as being merely a roadblock on the path to the new Muslim Empire.