Sublime

Instead of thanks,” said Peres, “we got bombs.”4 He moved Israel’s elections up by six months, confident that Israelis, repulsed by the Right’s assassination of Rabin, would elect him to lead the country. Indeed, polls showed him with a significant lead over his rival, Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party.

As previously documented, the Palestinians have been offered a homeland on three separate occasions—in 1937, 1947, and 2000-2001—and each time have rejected the offer and responded with increased terrorism.

OF MORE IMMEDIATE CONCERN to Israel’s government was the spread of nuclear technology, and particularly the nuclear aspirations of governments committed to Israel’s destruction. The Begin doctrine was tested in 2007 when Israel acquired incontrovertible evidence that Syria was building a nuclear reactor near the Euphrates River. After bringing Pres

Instead, in 1947, the Palestinians were offered nearly the same deal they had rejected in 1937 (with the exception of the barren Negev), despite the greater need for a place for the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from the death camps of Europe.