If this is the true face of the struggle, then further territorial concessions to the Arabs are useless for they can never bring closure to the basic issue of the right of a Jewish state to exist in the land of Israel. A previous Mufti of Jerusalem who operated here from the 1920s until the 1940s not only hated Jews and attempted to kill them in cooperation with Hitler, but also eliminated any moderate Arab leadership or constituency. In accordance with the tradition of autocracy and dictatorship that is unfortunately universal in the Arab world, the Mufti had any possible political opponents assassinated. Arafat is not far different. There is no independent, moderate Arab voice raised.
Peace Now is purely a Jewish phenomenon.
It is the victim that is justifying his persecutors. There certainly is no easy way out of our present maze of difficulties. Deluded in our immediate past by a euphoric vision of a rose garden in the Middle East, we have been clubbed back into harsh reality. We dare not doubt ourselves and our rights here in the land of Israel. All of Jewish history and destiny calls to us to be firm and strong, patient and unrelenting.