Peace Activist Turned Realist

Here is an excellent opinion peice from the YNetNews.com by Yoram Kaniuk. Kaniuk starts out by admitting that in the past he has always gone to peace rallies with his "eyes closed" simply because he was against the occupations of places like Gaza and Lebanon. But in this article he asks the important question that sepperates a "peace at all costs" person from a peaceful realist. That question is what do you do when the other side wants nothing less than your total destruction?

"The fact that Israel does not approve of calls for its annihilation and its unwillingness to have rockets hit Ashkelon, Sderot, Nahariya and Haifa? Is there a city in the world that sit idly by as it is hit by rockets, looking for excuses to understand the enemy and, in essence, to support it?"
- Yoram Kaniuk

He also takes some good shots at Noam Chomsky calling him "the Left's spiritual leader".

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Hezbollah, Hamas, Middle East, War, Terrorism