(Spectator-UK) - Melanie Phillips The big issue is that Israel has not accepted the road-map, which all right-thinking people praise, and is therefore the main obstacle to peace. Israel is having to perform to a script penned by Kafka. It extends a tentative hand to people who persistently murder its citizens. As a result, still more Israelis get murdered. The international community fails to hold the Palestinian perpetrators to account and instead blames Israel for not accepting the road-map. Er...isn’t the road-map's very first requirement that the Palestinians "immediately undertake an unconditional cessation of violence"? The Palestinians regard the whole of Israel as occupied territory to be liberated. Their maps, their schoolbooks, their insignia - from flags to lapel buttons - draw the whole of Israel as Palestine. They want the Jews out.
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