Word: israel
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These were some of the most powerful motivations behind the creation of the state of Israel, and we are not "Zealots" if we admit it. The fact is that Israel's existence is important for more than ideological reasons. Its fall would involve more than a change in sovereignty, as in a Falklands/Malvinas farce...
...point in mentioning these things is not to claim that supporters of Palestinian nationalism are anti-Semitic, nor is it, as Larew suggests, to show how much "more morally palatable Israel is than the neighboring Arab states." I agree with him that this fact is irrelevant...
What is relevant is that Israeli policy makers are often faced with a choice between evils. They have felt that the evils of a military occupation (and it is necessarily evil, despite everything Israel has done to soften it) are preferable to the evils of what a high-ranking member of the PLO introduced within tht past decade as a "policy of stages" toward the destruction of Israel...
...changed? Possibly. But their saying so is not enough to convince me. Not while the killing goes on. Not while demonstrators at Harvard last week who described themselves as PLO supporters could chant "Israel no, Palestine Yes!" until one student prevailed upon them to find a less inflammatory (perhaps less honest) slogan...
Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz is not a "Zealot," but a realist when he says that curtailment of civil rights on the West Bank was unavoidable. That is what military occupation means. It was thrust on Israel in 1967, confirmed in 1973 by another all-out Arab war that nearly destroyed Israel and has been confirmed ever since...