(Washington Post) Max Boot - As Arab states have increasingly accepted Israel's legitimacy and are doing business with it, Western leftists increasingly deny Israel's legitimacy and refuse to do business with it. Critics of Israel lose perspective if they imagine that it can simply remove all its security forces from the West Bank and lift all its border controls on Gaza without endangering its own citizens. Israel evacuated its civilians and troops from Gaza in 2005, and the result was not peace but the rise of a genocidal Hamas regime that seeks Israel's annihilation. A total Israeli pullout of Israeli forces in the West Bank would allow Palestinian armed groups there to gain access to more powerful weaponry and commit even worse atrocities. Anti-Israel activists should ask themselves why they're fine with at least 45 Muslim-majority states in the world - including notorious human rights violators such as Iran and Syria - but they refuse to accept the lone Jewish state? They should also ask themselves why they are more exercised by human rights violations committed by Israel, a liberal democracy, than by dictatorships that commit far more heinous offenses, such as China, which is carrying out crimes against humanity in both Xinjiang and Tibet, where Beijing is trying to erase an entire culture and religion. Yet there is no BDS movement targeting China.
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