Why Do They Call It a Peace Process?

Evelyn Gordon, in an article entitled “Surreal Diplomacy,” worth reading in its entirety, has a brief summary of a misnamed process, now heading toward Act VI:

This process has included five signed agreements in which Palestinians pledged to halt terror, Israeli withdrawals from all of Gaza and parts of the West Bank, the complete dismantling of 25 settlements and Israel's offer of Palestinian statehood on about 95 percent of the territories, including east Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.  Yet not only has none of this dampened Palestinian enthusiasm for killing Jews; it has stoked it.

For Israelis, every stage of the "peace process" has produced less actual peace.  In the two and a half years following the 1993 Oslo Accord, Palestinians killed more Israelis than during the entire preceding decade.  In the four years following Ehud Barak's statehood offer at Camp David in 2000, Palestinians killed more Israelis than during the preceding 53 years.  In 2006, the first full year following the August 2005 disengagement, the number of rockets launched from Gaza at pre-1967 Israel more than tripled compared to 2004 (the last full year pre-disengagement).

The bleat of the lamb excites the tiger.

Comments

[soccerdad]

Your last comment reminds me of a joke.

A man goes to the zoo and sees a lion and lamb resting together in the same cage. Overwhelmed by this Messianic vision he seeks out the zookeeper and asks how he managed such a miracle.

The zookeeper shrugs and says, "We put a new lamb in every morning."

The article also reminds me of the late Emil Fackenheim's comment about Arafat selling Israel the same carpet over and over again.

[Biff]

Both Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein have been attributed this quote--which seems very apropos of the situation: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

[Dr. Chemical]

It's a Piece Process, destroying Israel piece by piece.

[Alex]

And what do you think of Obadiah Shoher's arguments against the peace process ( samsonblinded.org/blog/we-need-a-respite-from-peace.htm )?