Government line on Gaza suggests we have forgotten our own history
Tragic because it is causing physical and emotional injury to innocent Palestinian civilians as well as the terrorists. Tragic because like every war it creates intolerable human hardship and heartbreaking suffering.
That all this was unavoidable is the greatest tragedy of all. When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, destroying all the Israeli settlements there, the Palestinians blew an historic opportunity, just as they blew an opportunity to have their own state way back in Bill Clinton’s day. The Palestinians’ need to destroy Israel is still stronger, it seems, than their need to build Palestine.
