Happy 60th Birthday, Israel: Well Done for Surviving
Spectator, The; London › August 26, 2009
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It is even pressuring Israel to accept Hamas's 'truce' -- by which Hamas means a period when Israel doesn't attack it so it can equip itself for war undisturbed -- so that on his visit to Israel next week [Bush] can pretend that Middle East peace in our time is imminent. But this is a virtual reality peace process, since even the 'moderate' Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas has said in terms that he will never recognise Israel as a Jewish state.
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Happy 60th Birthday, Israel: Well Done for Surviving
What would Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have said if, on the day that he declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he had known that six decades thence Israel would be encircled by its enemies, hopelessly outnumbered and fighting for its existence? He would surely have said: so what's new?
Next week, on 8 May, Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of that declaration. With every decade that it clocks up, people ask the same question: will Israel still be there for the next one? It is indeed astonishing that it has not only survived but is flourishing. Its situation as a permanent...See the full content of this document
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