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Veteran U.S. Peace-Processors Seek to Thwart Israeli Democracy

(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - Veteran U.S. State Department peace-processors Aaron David Miller and Daniel Kurtzer penned an op-ed in the Washington Post this week calling on the Biden administration to intervene in Israel's domestic debates, place limits on aid to it, and prevent Israel's new government from following the allegedly "malign" policies on which it was elected. While acknowledging that neither the Palestinian Authority nor Hamas want to make peace, the authors continue to cling to the myth that what the Palestinians seek is an independent state alongside Israel, and that America must force Israel to pretend that this is still true. They are ready to blame Palestinian terrorism and rejection of peace on the assertion of Jewish rights and the defense of Israel's security, rather than on the fact that both the Fatah kleptocrats in Ramallah and the Hamas Islamists in Gaza refuse to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state, no matter where its boundaries are drawn. Their position effectively legitimizes Arab terrorism against Jews and antisemitism at the UN by branding Israeli actions that might protect its interests and security as the behavior of a rogue state. They aren't defending democracy, peace or the U.S.-Israel alliance. Their objective is to thwart the verdict of Israeli democracy and promote instability and violence by reverting to Oslo fantasies.
2022-12-01 00:00:00
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