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Here's an excerpt of an interesting op-ed article that I saw in my local paper today:
Here's a link to an online version of the article in case anyone wants to read the rest of it: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/p...20020409.shtml
The Israelis must be winning their war in terror. Because the Europeans, after easily tolerating 18 months of violence against Israeli civilians, complete with suicide bombings and shooting sprees, have suddenly offered to intercede.
It's a familiar pattern going back at least to the Yom Kippur War of 1973, when the international community was struck by the necessity of mediating the conflict as soon as General Sharon's tanks turned up across the Suez and within striking distance of Cairo. Clearly something had to be done.
Once again the Europeans have decided it's up to them to make peace. The same way they did in the Balkans, no doubt, back in the '90s. Europe's pious ditherers let Bosnia simmer in blood for years before America finally, finally intervened. And not till the United States took the leading role was Slobodan Milosevic's sordid little war in Kosovo stopped.
Doubtless one of the same experienced U.N. peacekeepers who presided over Srebrenica and such massacres, like the distinguished Kofi Annan, can be called on now to work with his fellow Nobel laureate, Yasser Arafat, to bring the same kind of peace to the Mideast. Where is Boutros Boutros-Gali when you need him? There was the name of a U.N. secretary-general to conjure with.
There are times when one wonders how long even European diplomats can keep a straight face as they produce this theater of the absurd. Once again Europe's synagogues are burning, cemeteries are desecrated, there's a feel of Kristallnacht in the air, and what is the response of the European Community? Having been one of the more faithful suppliers of money and support for Yasser Arafat's terrorist network all these years, the EC now has stepped forward to bring peace to the Middle East, a la Srebrenica.
Well, why not? Europe has expertise in this area. It solved its Jewish Problem years ago, nicht wahr? The more Europe changes, the more it stays the 1930s.
It's a familiar pattern going back at least to the Yom Kippur War of 1973, when the international community was struck by the necessity of mediating the conflict as soon as General Sharon's tanks turned up across the Suez and within striking distance of Cairo. Clearly something had to be done.
Once again the Europeans have decided it's up to them to make peace. The same way they did in the Balkans, no doubt, back in the '90s. Europe's pious ditherers let Bosnia simmer in blood for years before America finally, finally intervened. And not till the United States took the leading role was Slobodan Milosevic's sordid little war in Kosovo stopped.
Doubtless one of the same experienced U.N. peacekeepers who presided over Srebrenica and such massacres, like the distinguished Kofi Annan, can be called on now to work with his fellow Nobel laureate, Yasser Arafat, to bring the same kind of peace to the Mideast. Where is Boutros Boutros-Gali when you need him? There was the name of a U.N. secretary-general to conjure with.
There are times when one wonders how long even European diplomats can keep a straight face as they produce this theater of the absurd. Once again Europe's synagogues are burning, cemeteries are desecrated, there's a feel of Kristallnacht in the air, and what is the response of the European Community? Having been one of the more faithful suppliers of money and support for Yasser Arafat's terrorist network all these years, the EC now has stepped forward to bring peace to the Middle East, a la Srebrenica.
Well, why not? Europe has expertise in this area. It solved its Jewish Problem years ago, nicht wahr? The more Europe changes, the more it stays the 1930s.
Here's a link to an online version of the article in case anyone wants to read the rest of it: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/p...20020409.shtml
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