{"id":1950,"date":"2002-04-04T08:53:30","date_gmt":"2002-04-04T13:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2002-04-04T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2002-04-04T13:53:30","slug":"facing_hard_tru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/04\/facing_hard_tru.html","title":{"rendered":"Facing hard truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good op-ed piece from the <i>NY Times<\/i> (requires free registration) on some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/04\/03\/opinion\/03FRIE.html\">hard truths<\/a> that folks will need to face in order to see peace in Israel.  Author Thomas Friedman&#8217;s opinions?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The world needs to recognize that Israel has to be able to something to stop terrorism within its borders.\n<li>Israel has to, ultimately, give up the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians.\n<li>The US and\/or NATO will need to provide security and supervision of current Palestinian territories, to oversee their transition to an independent state, because, frankly, the Palestinians and, more particularly their leadership, cannot be trusted at the moment to run their territories on their own.\n<li>Arab leaders in the region need to stop supporting (in all senses of the word) terrorism as a legitimate action (or, more properly, using their support of it as a tool to placate their own internal dissenters).\n<li>The American Jewish community needs to let the US government criticize Israel as needed, including on such items as Jewish settlements on the West Bank.<\/ul>\n<p>If these truths are not faced and followed through on, Friedman asserts, nothing will improve, and things will only continue to deteriorate, with Israel using bigger guns, Palestinians using bigger bombs, and the hatred and violence only growing.<\/p>\n<p>I think the article has a lot of value to say.  I also think it&#8217;s extremely unlikely that we will see all &#8212; and possibly not any &#8212; of those &#8220;truths&#8221; faced.  Dammit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good op-ed piece from the NY Times (requires free registration) on some of the hard truths that folks will need to face in order to see peace in Israel&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2708,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/13\/and_on_the_othe.html","url_meta":{"origin":1950,"position":0},"title":"And on the other hand","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-May-02 12:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My support for Israel's battle against terrorism by Palestinian militants doesn't mean they get a blank check to keep building settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. 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