The Case for Israel

The most important and enduring steps toward peace are thus attitudinal:

eminently reasonable and fair solution could have been achieved long ago if the Arab leadership had not rejected the Peel Report, the U.N. partition, and the Camp David-Taba proposals.

Until the world acknowledges that the Arab refusal to accept the existence of Israel following the U.N. partition created an exchange of population that must now be deemed to be permanent, there will be no prospect of peace between the Arabs and Israel.

The Arab and Muslim nations of the world must also come to accept not only Israel’s continued existence as a fact but also its right to exist as a Jewish state in safety and security.

They, their children, and often their grandchildren were born in refugee camps deliberately established by Israel’s enemies to perpetuate and expand a refugee problem designed to destroy Israel.

Creating a strong Palestinian state next to a strong Israel will require Palestinians to give up their unrealistic dream and Israel’s dreaded nightmare of several million people returning to Israel who claim to be refugees from Israel. This so-called Palestinian right of return, more than any Israeli action, including the misguided continued occupa

Opponents of Israel tend to emphasize the disparity between Israeli Arabs and Jews, while hardly mentioning how much better Israeli Arabs fare than their counterparts in the Arab

No other refugee group in history—certainly none created by the kind of complex forces that led an equivalent number of Arabs to leave Israel and Jews to leave Arab countries—has ever been given an actual right to return that had the effect, if not the intent, of changing the character and nature of the country that they left.

But, as stated at the outset, it is the thesis of this book that no nation in the history of the world that has faced comparable threats to its survival—both external and internal—has ever made greater efforts at, and has ever come closer to, achieving the high norms of the rule of law.