Wednesday, April 9, 2003
This Chaim Herzog speech before the UN is indeed "as relevant today as when it was first made." Herzog runs down the legality of the settlements and the absurdity of the idea that they are part of the problem.
[...]The obstacle to peace lies in the failure of world leadership and opinion to insist that both sides sit down and negotiate face to face. The obstacle to peace lies in the encouragement given to Arab intransigence because of reasons of expediency. The obstacle to peace is a basic Arab attitude and until that attitude is changed, no real advance towards peace can be made. These are the obstacles to peace and any attempt to point a finger at Israel's actions and to characterize them as obstacles to peace is untrue and baseless and is nothing but a grave misinterpretation of events in the Middle East.[...]
