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Double Standard for Israel's Peace Efforts
[New York Daily News] Editorial - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week accepted the idea of a Palestinian state as part of a Mideast peace settlement. His good deed did not go unpunished. In return for envisioning "two people...side by side in amity and mutual respect," Netanyahu was branded, in far too many corners, as an obstacle to peace for placing what were called "conditions" on his offer. Chief among them was a call for Palestinian demilitarization and "public, binding and unequivocal" Palestinian recognition that Israel is "the state of the Jewish people." How dare he insist on the very survival of his country! Former President Jimmy Carter visited Gaza Tuesday, territory that the Palestinians had turned into a rocket-launching pad after the Israelis ceded it for self-rule. He proclaimed that Palestinians there are being "treated more like animals than human beings." There was a reason Israel staged strikes against Gaza last year. In fact, 7,000 reasons: missiles Hamas lobbed before Israel had to defend itself. And there's an excellent reason Israel imposes tight security on Gaza: suicide bombings sponsored by the Hamas terrorists who run the place. Carter didn't mention those.