On The Other Hand

You are correct Neil, 2, 10, 100 OR 1000 wrongs NEVER make a right.

Really, Mr. Rubin, you ought not write on topics about which you have nothing more to offer than stream-of-consciousness do-gooderism.

Are you sure you want to take a stand on this logic: if we are nice to muslims, they will be nice to us?

How many Jewish graves have been desecrated, both in Europe and in the Middle East? I’m not sure Germans, Poles, or Ukrainians are too worried about it. I also seem to recall, between 1948 and 1967, Jews, against UN agreements, were barred from the Temple Mount area, and the Jordanians used Jewish gravestones in latrines. What structures sacred to Jews in Hevron have the arabs desecrated in the last intifada? And Saudi Arabia? The wahabbis have a pleasant habit of desecrating muslim graves venerated by other muslims for one reason or another.

Perhaps this comes as news to you, but muslims regard *all* of Israel as their land, whether this or that bit of ground was previously a muslim cemetery or not. The “dispute” is not now, nor ever was, over land, though I understand that is the only “narrative” you can get your mind around. Try thinking outside of the box of “received wisdom” every once and a while.

What we must do is steel ourselves to the necessities of Israel acting like a fully sovereign power in the land of our Fathers, and take actions to preserve, protect, and defend it - regardless of what the perpetually-outraged arabs say or do.