Washington Post columnist George F. Will wrote yesterday,
\"…[a Palestinian state] is desirable only if its values are not those of founding fathers who dispatch suicide bombers to school buses [and] are not the toxic brew of Arafatism -- terror and corruption...
\"A slice of Czechoslovakia in September 1938 inflamed the recipient\'s appetite for the rest of it six months later. Today, only the delusional can believe that gratitude for the powers granted to a \"provisional\" Palestinian state will predominate over resentment about powers withheld. Furthermore, the withheld powers that would make a Palestinian state provisional will not be withheld for long. Who will enforce any restrictions on the \"provisional\" state\'s armaments or diplomacy? The \"world community\"? The United Nations with its animus against Israel?...\"
\"…[a Palestinian state] is desirable only if its values are not those of founding fathers who dispatch suicide bombers to school buses [and] are not the toxic brew of Arafatism -- terror and corruption...
\"A slice of Czechoslovakia in September 1938 inflamed the recipient\'s appetite for the rest of it six months later. Today, only the delusional can believe that gratitude for the powers granted to a \"provisional\" Palestinian state will predominate over resentment about powers withheld. Furthermore, the withheld powers that would make a Palestinian state provisional will not be withheld for long. Who will enforce any restrictions on the \"provisional\" state\'s armaments or diplomacy? The \"world community\"? The United Nations with its animus against Israel?...\"