Christians be warned. In the course of the riot, the Arabs also murdered Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, a father of seven. After Barak had it evacuated, his withered Cabinet told Jews to stay away from the Western Wall on Yom Kippur. As Professor Steven Plaut often points out, the Israeli left always makes sure the Arabs are rewarded for violence and thus taught that it is the best way to get what they want. When the Arab Student Union at Haifa University calls for Arabs to attack Israeli police, the University suggests the students be permitted to fly the Palestinian flag.
Leftists live by making other people die by Pavlovian conditioning.
That there is no room for any sovereign body that is not Muslim. The author concedes that the Arab hunger for the extinction of Israel had been whetted by the unilateral and disorderly withdrawal from Lebanon last spring. Balkanization is more than a metaphor when the leaders of a nation define it as illegitimate and structurally oppressive. As a correspondent and acute observer of the situation describes it from Judea, the process is just as Philip Agee described in CIA Diary . With plenty of coaching from diplomats at State and other Foreign Ministries, these demands manage to stay beyond the reach of the ever-escalating concessions of Israeli politicians.