(Washington Post) George F. Will - Two photographs adorn the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One photograph is of Theodor Herzl, Zionism's founding father. Long before the Holocaust, he concluded that Jews could find safety only in a national homeland. The other photograph is of Winston Churchill, who considered himself "one of the authors" of Britain's embrace of Zionism. World War II convinced European elites that the continent's nearly fatal disease was nationalism, the cure for which must be the steady attenuation of nationalities. Israel, with its deep sense of nationhood, is beyond unintelligible to such Europeans. It is perverse that the European Union, a semi-fictional political entity, serves as part of the "quartet" that supposedly will broker peace in our time between Israel and the Palestinians.
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