Jerusalem Post, Letters to the Editor, August 31, 2021
“Israel
will make a series of goodwill gestures to the Palestinian Authority, Defense
Minister Benny Gantz said Monday after a rare meeting with PA President Mahmoud
Abbas the night before in Ramallah.”
Goodwill
gestures? Historian Benny Morris in his lecture
“Jihad and Antisemitism in the 1948 War” said, “On the basis of the research I
did for book 1948, which came out in 2008, I pointed out that the war was also
a religious war, certainly from the Arab side, a jihad, they were waging jihad
against the Jewish Zionists who were seen as infidels and were fighting over
what they regarded as sacred territory.”
Goodwill
gestures is not exactly something that worked at all throughout history during
the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem, Persia, Anatolia, the Balkans, North Africa,
Sindt, India and Andalusia.
Is it not
time that our political leadership started reading history? To quote Ayaan
Hirsi Ali’s remark
made regarding the US debacle in Afghanistan, but which is fully applicable to
the Palestinians as well: “What makes you think they will act differently and
how many times do you want that to happen before you wake up and realize that
it is just not true? Take the world as it is not as you fantasize it to be.”
MLADEN
ANDRIJASEVIC
