Power Line posted a short article yesterday quoting some comments by Ron Dermer, Director of Communications and Policy Planning in the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He made the following statement about Israeli settlements:
"On a personal level, I have a problem with the idea of a Jew not being able to live wherever he wants. A Jew can live in Paris and they can live in Muncie, but they can't live in Hebron, where Jews have been living for 3,500 years until the community was massacred 80 years ago? The whole concept that peace demands an area be cleansed of Jews is very problematic for me . . . . [I]t makes no sense. I actually think that when the Palestinians are prepared to live with Jews among them they are much more likely to be prepared to live with Jews alongside them."
I doubt we would be willing to make the type of concessions for peace that we are asking Israel to make. They have given up land for the promise of peace for more than 15 years now (the Oslo Peace Accord was signed in 1993), and the only result has been that they have been attacked from the land they gave up. Part of the Oslo agreement was the disarming of the terrorists in the land given up. I'm still waiting for that.
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