Krauthammer sums it up pretty well:
Israel can’t have a forward defense – a buffer zone – but must trade land for peace. The land was traded, and there was no peace. Israel can’t have an active defense – disrupting the terrorists – but must stop provoking its neighbors. Israel stopped, and the neighbors became even less neighborly. Now Israel cannot have passive defense – a blockade – because it stops the free flow of rockets into Gaza.
The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, six million — that number again — hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized, and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists — Iranian in particular — openly prepare a more final solution.
Today they are coming for the Jews. As for tomorrow, remember that people vilified Ronald Reagan for proposing ways to prevent incoming nuclear missiles from landing on our cities. They delegitimized defense, and that irrational mindset is now the driving force in our foreign policy.
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