Three dozen Harvard student organizations say Israel 'is the only one to blame'

[marybourg]

7. Yes. I'm old enough to remember the

creation of the state of Israel and your summation of the history of Israel-Palestinian interactions is how I remember it. I guess the Harvard students, as is traditional for college students, think history began the day they were born. They don’t even remember the suicide bombers, the bus bombers, the earlier saboteurs whose murderous actions caused Israel to cease allowing Palestinian workers to enter Israel in the thousands each morning as they used to do.

And they certainly don’t remember the peace plan that President Clinton brokered which failed because the Palestinians cut off their noses to spite their faces by insisting on the destruction of Israel before they would accept statehood.

And they certainly don’t remember the unrelenting warfare Israel has been subjected to since its birth, including the raining down of artillery from the Golan Heights for decades. No, they only know what they see now and what happened before they reached the age of awareness interests them not at all. They believe they are supporting the oppressed underdog and that’s always been popular with the young of every generation.