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Today's Times has a letter from Lord Balfour, with sentiments entirely typical of the British establishment:
If Israel is to help put an end to this and soften attitudes towards it, perhaps it should put up with some pain without always fighting back instantly. This would allow a better background for forceful diplomacy involving Tehran, Damascus and others in the region. Israel is not going to disappear and nor is Arabia. They had better train their peoples to live with the fact.
Ah yes, best to let a few yids snuff it than upset diplomacy.
The new Canadian PM doesn't think Israeli lives are expendable in the face of terror:
We all want to encourage not just a ceasefire, but a resolution. And a resolution will only be achieved when everyone gets to the table and everyone admits that recognition of each other...But I have to say this. I read in some papers somewhere that someone involved in this said, ‘Well, Hezbollah will protect, Hezbollah will take care of us’. Hezbollah’s objective is violence. Hezbollah believes that through violence it can create, it can bring about the destruction of Israel. Violence will not bring about the destruction of Israel ... and inevitably the result of the violence will be the deaths primarily of innocent people.
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I don't know who this Balfour fellow is but I see he's trotted out the usual lazy moral equivalence trope—the notion that both sides are equally at fault, and Israel is just as committed to the destruction of 'Arabia' as the Arab states are to re-enacting the Holocaust. What a jejune analysis: "They had better train their peoples…" This rather neglects the fact that Palestinian Authority textbooks incite murderous Jew-hatred among children. The pompous de-haut-en-bas tone practically parodies itself. The conflict is portrayed as a squabble between two unruly children, and all it needs to be solved is for them to stand in the corner and think about what they've done while panjandrums like Balfour preside over the whole affair. What an ass.
