Tony Klug’s Middle East Solution Ignores History

The 1967 War changed the Middle East equation in a critical way. Prior to that year, the Arab world’s stated and unabashed goal was Israel’s destruction; that is, the “little” Israel of pre-1967, an area that has nothing to do with what people like Mr. Klug today call “the occupation.” No Arab nation acknowledged the legitimacy of a Jewish state. Most of them persecuted their own Jewish population terribly, whose only salvation was to leave for the area’s one state where that would not happen: Israel. At least two of them—Saudi Arabia and Jordan—still outlaw Jewish settlement or citizenship within their borders. Could Mr. Klug imagine if Israel outlawed Muslim citizenship within its borders?

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