Excerpt From Blog Post:
Martin Peretz
When it comes to Israel, observes the editor-in-chief of the leading journal of liberal thought, The New Republic, the administration is clueless
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Tomorrow will be the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin at a Tel Aviv rally for the Oslo peace accords. Like the initial rally itself, the memorial—scheduled for Saturday, October 31, but postponed due to what turned out to be only light rains—was to be a highly charged political event. Except that in 1995, Israel was still stirred by hopes of bringing the decades of war with the Arabs to an end. Yet, at the same time, foreboding grew that these hopes themselves constituted a trap, a mortal trap. (I admit that, already in September 1993 during the ceremonial handshakes on the White House lawn from which Oslo emerged, I felt...