Sunday, October 26, 2003
Stephen Cohen brings his appeal for what is apparently his new "Leftist" American Jewish political group to the pages of the Boston Globe. Focussing on settlements and the new Geneva Accord, all this looks like is an attempt to bring the Israeli Left to America and give it a pretty face. In their efforts for peace, I wish them luck. In so far as I think many of their efforst will simply make things worse, I wish them misfortune. And frankly, at least Israeli Leftists are monkeying with their own desitinies. Americans putting external pressure on democraticly elected leaders in favor of those who were kicked out by wide margins is simply obnoxious meddling - and that's charitable. Israel is a democracy. They don't need to saved from themselves.
Well, we've been down this path of examining what the real cause of suicide terrorism is, and I'm not going to go over that ground again in this post, but this statement does beg the question: What is it that Palestinians would consider a "just political solution?" Answer that with an honest appraisal of what the Palestinians are really prepared to accept, not simply write on a slip of paper, and you'll find the ultimate hopelessness and meaninglessness of Cohen's stance.
