Posted by
John Dendahl on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:20:06 PM
Here is Brit commentator Melanie Phillips, applying George Santayana's timeless observation to Israel:
"It is only if the true history of the Middle East is understood that certain things become inescapably clear: the scale of the monumental lie that has been so assiduously promulgated about the nature of this dispute ... the fact that the fundamental cause of this tragic impasse was the repeated British appeasement of Arab terror, illegality and injustice, a policy which continues to this very day; and the immorality and absurdity therefore of believing that today's ‘two-state solution’ ... would be anything other than a Final Solution for the Jews of Israel ...."