The Future of an Illusion | The Weekly Standard
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Secretary Clinton told the giant AIPAC meeting, “Our credibility in this process depends in part on our willingness to praise both sides when they are courageous, and when we don’t agree, to say so, and say so unequivocally.” Several recent Palestinian actions, she said, were “provocations” that are “wrong and must be condemned.” That was nice, but saying it to a Jewish audience in a kiss-and-make-up session in Washington fools no one, not after her famous 43-minute telephone call to Netanyahu. These “provocations . . . that must be condemned” (note the passive voice) did not after all elicit a timely call to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas condemning them, nor did she use the Quartet meeting in Moscow on March 19 for that purpose.
Only the our friends have to pay a real price for their actions. It might also be added that only the actions of our enemies involve killing people. Our friends "provocations" involve things like building houses.
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oh yes, the israelis never killed anyone in this conflict, they only built houses
I take you point may be true in general, but the current crisis does involve the Israelis building houses on land they already control. The "crises" caused by the Israelis have often been something like building a pedestrian tunnel too close to a holy site or making buildings too large. There never seems to be a crisis provoked by putting a suicide bomb vest on a 14 year old with down syndrome or launching rockets at residential neighborhoods.
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