Territory Of Lies
Why did Jonathan Pollard deliver U.S. national secrets to Israel? According to Blitzer, it was largely the tug of what Pollard saw as a higher loyalty, with some hero worship and derring-do fantasy thrown in. The prose is occasionally offhand, but Blitzer, longtime Washington correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, knows his two countries in detail and is careful not to venture beyond his evidence.
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The end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf conflict sparked the Madrid conference, formal peace between Israel and Jordan, and some autonomy for the West Bank. But those days have gone. Even if Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu had lost the election, Arab countries would still be more preoccupied with economic problems, internal political challenges, and security threats from Iraq and Iran. But the end of the era of treaties need not be the end of the peace process. The plo should discourage violence against Israel, and Israel should disrupt Syrian support for Hezbollah. The United States must maintain the principle of territory for peace.
One of the tactics Israel has used in responding to terrorism has been to seek out and kill individual enemies. Now Washington has started doing the same. The United States and Israel face different circumstances, however, and so the Bush administration should think twice before proceeding.
