AS publishes one of his reader's laments on a Palestinian boy killed recently by an Israeli air-strike.
The case for a "cycle of violence" is more thin than ever.
- The Palestinian population in Gaza are living there practically jew-free (which is a fairly radical concession, from a number of perspectives). They are not "occupied" in any plain sense of the term.
- They have a clear path toward statehood and political sovereignty laid out before them.
- They have the EU and the US willing to bankroll their
life-supportdeath-support, so to speak. - Yet, they choose to shoot random rockets at Jews and its really hard to say that it is just rogue elements at work.
No, for the first time in a long, long while there is a heightened level of moral transparency, if you will, and it is not obscured in a "cycle of violence".
The Hamas need to take steps for the Palestinian people, and that means negotiating with Israel. Under conditions as they exist now - hard fought conditions - such an appeal is so simple, so basic it cannot be construed as a moral surrender. They must turn their face to peace, right?
One can say this, even having turned a very critical eye to Israeli politics on the matters, too.
