That was the hope. We still have to submit to Israeli rules to move between cities, to travel abroad, to export or import goods, even to try to teach our children their history. . . . The state the Palestinians would then be offered would have within it a group of Israeli nationalistic fanatics, many of whom moved to the West Bank precisely to ensure that there would never be a Palestinian state. Lerner, whose son served in the Israeli army, isn't saying that the bloodshed of the past weeks is entirely Israel's fault. But he does insist that the lynching by Palestinians of two Israeli soldiers is not fundamentally less moral than the killing by Israeli soldiers of scores of Palestinians and the wounding of thousands more.
Palestinian violence is both immoral and irrational.
Yet the preponderance of responsibility lies with Israel and with an international media that continue to obscure the basic realities facing the Palestinian people, and continue to treat the death of Israeli soldiers enforcing a brutal occupation as somehow more outrageous and barbarous than the killing of many times as many Palestinian teenagers who were resisting the occupation. On the civil, political and diplomatic side, recognition that things in the Middle East are not always what they seem to us in America. It's time, he says, for both sides to look beyond their own pain. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.