Why then are decent people today afraid to call evil by its name? Why do so many insist on finding moral equivalence? And why do so many people describe the worst of evils—the deliberate targeting of children—with positive-sounding terms like “freedom fighting,” while describing reasonable efforts to prevent these Nazi-like evils as Nazism itself?

Foreign Minister Liberman fired back that the demand for a settlement halt merely enabled the Palestinians to boycott peace talks and to sanction

demonstrate how the international community’s unfair treatment of Israel is itself a barrier to peace, let me pose an important what if question.

There must be a price paid for starting and losing wars. That price includes a diminished status in the postwar peace negotiations.