Israel’s enemies show their cards

Tony Judt’s article in the New York Review of Books calling for a bi-national, single-state solution in the Mideast, combined with the Muslim leaders’ applause for Prime Minister Mahathir’s anti-Israel speech, point to an emerging view in leftist and third-world opinion that denies the legitimacy of the Jewish state. If this indeed becomes the consensus, writes Saul Singer at NRO, it will clarify what the Israel-Arab conflict has really been about all along: not settlements, not the supposed Israeli denial of Palestinian rights, but Israel’s very existence. That may further isolate Israel in the short term, but strengthen it in the long term.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 10, 2003 10:51 AM | Send