William Levinson posted an article today at the American Thinker that had a very interesting perspective on peace in the Middle East.
In the article, Mr. Levinson cites a program used in the automotive industry:
Even though Israel would not “occupy” Gaza, Judea, and Samaria for another nineteen years, its Arab neighbors then began a long litany of terroristic violence against it. The two-state argument therefore confuses cause with effect. The “occupation” is the consequence and not the cause of Arab violence, and it is past time to say this openly and without apology or equivocation. The Arabs did not conspire to attack Israel in 1967 because Israel had occupied their land any more than the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in retaliation for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Mr. Levinson finally concludes:
The Allies could rehabilitate Germany and Japan economically only after they removed these countries’ warlords from power. If Israel cannot apply the same remedy to its attackers, it must put them down in such a way that they will never get up again. This is the only way to achieve lasting peace, and it is the only thing the world’s aggressors fear or understand.
These are lessons we need to apply to Iraq and Afghanistan, but we are choosing to ignore those lessons.