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Roger Cohen has a touching column today about a guy named David Khoury, who moved to the West Bank to open a microbrewery.
I asked Khoury what he would say to an Israeli general if he had the chance. “I would tell him that Israel is a reality and the Palestinian people are ready to live in peace,” he said. “We are not terrorists but we have the right to resist occupation. I would say that you are greedy. You have to give up the West Bank and go back to the 1967 borders, for the sake of Israeli women and children and Palestinian women and children. Enough is enough.”
You could load all sorts of polemics on top of that, but it would be pointless. The wisdom comes through clearly enough.
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Paying a visit to the beer joint might indeed be the right thing to do. But the beer goggles on Cohen and Ackerman need to be defogged.
There have always been some Arabs who don’t want to live in war, but in peace. But Fayyad and his friends don’t have the muscle to stand up to Syria and Hamas after an Arab state is built in the West Bank.
Deliberately or unwillingly, Fayyad is a Trojan Horse for the better-armed eliminationist wing of the Arabs. Finding a decent figurehead is not the problem. The problem is keeping the peace afterward, when the new Palestine has open legal access to the arms dealers of the world, and the generous donations of Iran.
An Arab state in the West Bank could soon become a client state of Syria. Syria believes that Jordon, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine all belong to Syria. Maybe the first thing they’ll do is knock over the Jordanian monarchy, which would put them in a better position to attack Israel.
Forming a state is easy. Keeping the peace is hard.
Being friends with the Arab Christians isn’t the problem. The problem is the Arab Muslims, like Fatah and Hamas. They don’t sell beer.