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Time Magazine Promotes a Dangerous Lie
(New York Daily News) Mitchell Bard - A recent edition of Time magazine purports to explain "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace." This assertion reinforces the views of State Department Arabists who have long believed that Israelis don't know what's best for themselves and must be forced, like recalcitrant children, to capitulate to the demands of the Arabs for their own good. The idea is that Israel needs "tough love" - because Israelis are too stupid, immature or politically constrained to make decisions people 6,000 miles away see as in their best interests. They also naively believe that by piling on with other critics of Israel they can change the policy of Israel's democratically elected leaders. The Arabists only care that a Palestinian state is created in a year, not whether it will be a threat to Israel then or at any time in the future. Israelis will have to live with the consequences of their decisions for decades to come. What if the "moderate" Abbas is replaced in ten years by a Hamas-like extremist government? In that decade the quality of weapons will have improved and suddenly Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion Airport will be in the cross-hairs of Palestinian rockets.