An Israeli journalist writes: Will the Palestinians ever forgive you?
The Palestinians will never forgive us. Not only those who are alive today, but their children will despise us until their dying day, and theirs and theirs. They will revile us for having occupied them, exploited them, shelled them, and bombed them, and for having robbed them of their dignity and their land.
The hatred is such that it will continue even if we end the occupation. They will hate us, rightly or wrongly, for robbing them of their ability to govern themselves, for undermining their ability to persuade others of their morality of their cause, for creating the conditions for rule by gangs, fragmentation of the family, loss of national purpose and memory. Unto the 10th generation and beyond, we will serve the Palestinian national imagination as Pharoah and Amalek, Hitler and Chmielnitzli, Titus and Tomas de Torquemada.
BUT:
Now Hamas leaders including Damascus-based Khaled Meshal take turns trooping before Western and Arab cameras to announce that a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza could co-exist with a Jewish state in pre-1967 Israel, for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps exceeding 60 years.
I wish I could post the whole article, it's worth reading in its entirety.
Link:
http://www.haaretz.com/...
There is so much news coming from Palestine, some bad...alot good. I had planned to write a news update...maybe tomorrow.
But I just had to post information on this article. I hope people read it and come back for some discussion. Both parties want peace....that is clear. Many Israelis are beginning to understanding that the situation in Gaza and West Bank can NOT go on. We have to stop this multi-generational war now.
The best thing that has come out of the Lebanon war is the Windgrad Report. War has not solved one problem, but made the situation much much worse.
Olmert's reasoning....he wanted to surprise the enemy. He is now surprised at the backlash.
The article also speaks about the hideous Arab TV children's program that drags children into the horror of war. They live it everyday. They don't need to see it on TV, too.
Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti, an independent, said Wednesday that the show reflects a "mistaken approach" to the Palestinian struggle for independence and would be suspended immediately, to allow for a review.
http://www.jpost.com/...
There is a movement toward peace on both sides...I will diary tomorrow.