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January 6, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=667044&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

The Lie of Palestine

(Ha'aretz) Bradley Burston - To my Palestinian friends: The dreamer's disease breeds on lies, the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves and about the other side. The lie of Palestine holds that the pre-1967 borders are somehow sacred, and that there cannot be peace unless the refugees are allowed to return to their homes. The lie of Palestine holds that the Palestinians have sacrificed more than enough, conceded more than enough, suffered more than is humanly possible, and that now and forever it's the Jews' turn. Every Kassam rocket from your liberated Gaza makes sure that a Palestinian state is that much farther off into the future. Every move of terror on your part makes the world understand less why it is that you really should have a state of your own, or that you'll have any idea what to do with it when you get one.

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