Charles Krauthammer’s continued myopia needs to be placed in a better perspective (“The Saudis’ phony peace plan; A loving gesture to Yasser Arafat,” Commentary, March 11)
I cannot understand how anyone who knows anything about global politics would demonize the Palestinians, whereas people like Ariel Sharon remain bashful doves in the eyes of opportunists like Krauthammer.
Krauthammer must have conveniently forgotten that it was Sharon’s march on the Temple Mount with 2,000 armed troops last September that sparked the current intifada.
He should also not forget that Sharon vowed to negate the Oslo Accord as a political platform, promising to kill any attempt at peace even before it began.
Krauthammer must have overlooked the fact that an Israeli commission found Sharon indirectly responsible for the massacres of Palestinian non-combatants at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in the early 1980s.
The United Nations has called what Israel is doing “an affront to civilization.”
And, along with Amnesty International, the UN wants to send in observers to investigate human rights violations committed against the Palestinians.
Neither Sharon nor any of his administration is allowed to travel to Belgium, which has a warrant out for his arrest for war crimes.
When the African National Congress was fighting for independence from F.W. de Klerk’s white Afrikaaner majority in South Africa, Dick Cheney said they were “terrorists” and should be dealt with accordingly.
I hardly think Cheney would call Nelson Mandela and his revolutionaries “terrorists” today.
That same Mandela has called for an end to the “Palestinian apartheid.”
As long as we allow people like Krauthammer to continue his unsubstantiated maelstrom, there will be no peace in the Holy Land.
