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Concessions to Terror

Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael Oren have an excellent column about the Geneva Accord in this week's New Republic.

They point out that the Geneva Accord "denies Israel the means to defend itself by placing "Israel's security in the hands of a multinational force," including the UN and the EU, that "worshippers on their way to the Western Wall would have to pass through Palestinian territory," and that "there is no explicit renunciation of the right of return."

The column also blasts the notion of rewarding terror by increasing the extent of territorial concessions following terror. They explain that Geneva would effectively force Israel back to the 1967 borders, while Israel offered 92 percent of Judea and Samaria at Camp David and 96 percent at Taba.

Yet, disturbingly, Klein Halevi and Oren inadvertently appear open to giving in to terror. They write, "From our office window, we overlook Cafe Hillel, site of Jerusalem's last suicide bombing. No one needs to remind us that peace is worth painful sacrifices."

Real peace is indeed worth painful sacrifices. But Cafe Hillel is not a reminder of that fact. It is a reminder that making concessions as a result of terror will inevitably lead only to more terror. In an otherwise fine article by two excellent writers, this fact was surprisingly lost.
posted on 12/09/2003