[Washington Post] Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman - It may not be fashionable, but just for a moment look through the eyes of ordinary Israelis to understand their deep skepticism over demands they make sweeping new concessions for "peace" - on top of those they have already made. After 3,300 rockets were fired from Hamas into Israeli communities during 2008 alone, the IDF belatedly responded with a military operation last winter targeting Hamas' terrorist infrastructure. Yet what has been the reaction to Israel's defense against Hamas, whose founding Charter is a blueprint for wiping the Jewish state from the map? The Goldstone Commission Report whose precooked conclusions condemn the Jewish state. Israelis listen carefully to their designated "peace partner" Mahmoud Abbas as he bids up Palestinian extremists to see who can scream loudest demanding Israel's leaders be tried as "war criminals" by the International Criminal Court in the Hague - and this after a military operation that freed Fatah prisoners from probable execution in Hamas' torture chambers. Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Dr. Harold Brackman, a historian, is a consultant to the Center.
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