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Israel and the West Can Do Nothing to Appease the Islamists
[Wall Street Journal, 22Aug06] Shelby Steele - Every Israeli land-for-peace gesture has been met with a return volley of suicide bombers and rockets. Palestinians have balked every time their longed-for nationhood has come within grasp, seeming to prefer the aggrieved dignity of their resentments to the challenges of nationhood. And Hizballah launched the current war from territory Israel had relinquished six years earlier. This war makes clear that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her. And now much of the West is in a similar position, living in a state of ever-heightening security against the constant threat of violence from Islamic extremists. The writer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.