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Such a strategy does not just satisfy American national interests. It is simple logic. If the parties to the Bosnian conflict are ready to live with one another, they will enforce their own peace. If they are not, not even our troops will suffice...
Rascoff offers yet another creative solution to Israel's domestic problems. According to Rascoff, "it is a standard line in Jewish history that a little anti-Semitism has always been good for the Jews." Rascoff admits that "while that logic seems bizarre and contorted, it is hard to imagine this assassination having taken place while Israel was engaged in international conflict." Voila, a brilliant solution to Israel's domestic problem: reviving anti-Semitism! (But only a little of it, since we all know that too much anti-Semitism...
...must confess to being quite ignorant of Rascoff's reading of Jewish history. I seem unable to recall any of my history teachers in Israel proposing such a positive reading of anti-Semitism. Luckily, Israelis deny the kind of perverse logic that Rascoff offers. Most Israelis possess a healthy sense of their own identity and a firm enough grasp of the complexities of Israeli reality to avoid premature declarations of failure whenever the image they see in the mirror is not the loveliest of them...
...peace met the death of a soldier, his body torn by bullets. Perhaps there is no contradiction in the first part of the statement, only a paradox. We justify war by saying that it begets peace, that through death we bring life, and so on. By this logic, the Yitzhak Rabin who led Israel's army to triumph in the Six Day War shares everything but tactics with the Yitzhak Rabin who shook the hand of Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn. The warrior and the conciliator form two sides of the same soul, seeking one result...
...there is a paradox of war, there should be no paradox of peace. Peace should beget peace; through life we should bring more life. Then how can we explain to ourselves the death of Rabin? How can we understand fate's logic, when an assassin slays a man who has abandoned the methods of war, precisely because he has abandoned those methods? Our realism only extends so far--we are willing to accept that good can come out of evil; how much more cruel and intolerable it is to acknowledge that evil comes out of good...