…He even went on to praise Arafat who was “after all, the man who created a nation of the Arabs who were either turned into refugees or saw their land come under Israeli control in the 1948-Arab-Israeli War and the Six-Day War.”
And I say, dear me. This is painful to read. I mean Wagner is no Leftist jerk and malefactor like Beilin and Indyk and Friedman who wave the flag of the Ancient Palestinians. Nonetheless, it is depressing to see how Wagner has assimilated, without knowing it, the poison antiJew spew in our generation. When he writes of Arafat making incredibly bad choices that delayed the creation of a Balestinian state, he reveals his belief in Arafat’s desire for a Balestinian state; for anybody’s desire for a Balestinian state. He has swallowed like a communion wafer belief in this alleged nation-building nationality; belief in Arafat’s desire for such a state. This is utter nonsense. The Arabs have been offered statehood again and again and each have refused it, which permits some of us to consider the possibility they really don’t want state… |