British journalist Melanie Phillips has written a piece far more eloquently than I could about Israel's 60th birthday, which is next week on May 8th.
What strikes me first is the bravery in which she tackles such a difficult issue. Taking to task many of the actors involved in the quagmire in the Middle East. Including, but not limited to, the radical Islamist group Hamas, currently undermining any possibility of peace, the Bush administration, for its promotion of a faux truce serving only to allow the rearmament of Hamas, and the Iranian government, trying to spread the particularly wicked brand of theocracy currently in power there.
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative"
Golda Meir - LIFE Magazine (October 3rd 1969)
Anyway, read on...
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