Six days to remember -- accurately
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Boston Globe 6/10/2007:
Six days to remember -- accurately
A two-page "message" from the United Church of Christ repeatedly deplores Israel's occupation; it mentions some form of the word "occupy" 15 times, but doesn't mention even once the decades of Arab terrorism that have sent so many Israelis to early graves.
Considering how often the "occupation" is identified as the chief impediment to Arab-Israeli peace, you might expect 40th-anniversary discussions of the war to grapple with the fact that there was no occupation in 1967, when the Arabs were massing for war on Israel's borders. But that would mean acknowledging that Arab hatred and violence caused the occupation -- not, as current fashion has it, the other way around.
