Ships from Turkey with humanitarian aid for Gaza denied right to sail, flags removed

[Steven Maurer]

39. Compared to the demand that Jews let themselves be genocided...

...it certainly is.

Again, water rights isn't what sunk the Middle East peace agreement. The Israelis could have easily bent on that. What sunk it was the idea that the Israel side of a "two-state solution" would be forced to accept millions of people - including terrorists - hostile to its own existence. Obviously, no one would accept that.

Arafat decided that if he wasn't going to get Israel to negotiate away its own existence, he wasn't going to make any offer at all. And turned to violence.

This is well known to those of us who watched it play out back then.