By John LeBoutillierWatching the Israeli-Hamas War in Gaza - which is at best 'suspended pending further hostilities,' we need to ask a basic question: can the Arab countries ever accept Israel as their neighbor? Or will they continue to work toward the day when they can "drive Israel into the sea," to use Yasser Arafat's memorable words? Pat Buchanan tells a revealing story that helps clarify where we might be headed: In the summer of 1967 just as the Six Day War - between Israel and Syria, Jordan and Egypt - had ended, former Vice President Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan were traveling through the region and arrived at an Israeli medical tent in the Sinai desert. Israeli doctors were treating the wounded, including captured Egyptian soldiers. An Israeli doctor asked an Egyptian soldier he was patching up, "Look, we fought in 1948 and we won... then in '56 and we won... and now we have again won... why do you keep fighting us?" The wounded Egyptian fighter replied, "Because you may defeat us 12 times but we will win the 13th time we fight." And, of course, that is the point: Israel is always on the verge of defeat by their neighbors (especially Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas) - and their neighbors' sponsor (Iran). [more...]
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