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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/362316
Why We Don't Have Peace
(Commentary) Jennifer Rubin - An Israeli security guard travels through a section of the nation's capital (no, east Jerusalem is not a "settlement"). Palestinians set upon him, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. Afraid for his life, the guard shoots in self-defense, killing one assailant. The Palestinians commence a riot, injuring innocent Israelis. The world blames Israel. Israelis can only make peace with those who want it and are prepared to put down the guns, the stones, the knives, the rocks, and the Molotov cocktails to build a civil (in both senses of the word) society. We'll have peace, as commentator Rachel Abrams elegantly described it, when and if Palestinians "can renounce once and for all the creeping Islamism that would sooner see them suffering the miseries and oppression of twelfth-century religious and cultural practice than thriving in a modern society; if they can cast off at last the self-strangling mythology of their own victimhood; and if they can shed their century-old yearning to set the blood of their Jewish neighbors flowing in the streets."