…Trouble is, Israelis are not very good at relating to these Arabs because they are hamstrung by a desire, even a craving, to talk them into making peace by being nice to them, offering them things. Israelis exhibit an unstated belief that it is possible to purchase peace with these people by giving them most of Judea and Samaria, in the belief this will satisfy these Hamitic sons of Ishmael.

And one would hope that after 21 years of the existence of the Palestinian Authority which was conceived as a kind of training program toward statehood, and its utter failure, Israelis might be moved to alter their views in the matter of relating to the Arabs not as potential friends to be won over but enemies who need to be kept at arm’s length and rendered impotent until such time as they have a change of heart and mind.

This is most important, a factor in our lives here the Oslo Peace Engineers never factored in. It never occurred to Beilin, Peres, Rabin and their tribe of delusionists that the Arabs they were negotiating with were intellectually spiritually off the rails. If you remember the pinball games where if you hit them too hard they went Tilt and shut down. Well, these Arabs are sort of like people with minds permanently in a state of tilt…