"Simply put, is peaceful coexistence at all possible between Israeli Jews and Muslim Arabs?

What is peace, anyway?

I thought about this a great deal over the past few days. I thought about it when I saw articles about how Syrian snipers precisely target children's spines. Dr. Yoav Hoffman said, 'The injuries are very specific: gunshot wounds from a single bullet to the lumbar spine, near vertebrates 2 and 3. These shootings are not intended to kill, but to cause misery. They result in paralysis or slow death in Syria's conditions.'

Hoffman has seen 25 children come into his unit for treatment for these exact injuries. The children are treated in Israel and sent home to Syria in donated wheelchairs, paralyzed for life.

What possible purpose could there be in targeting the spines of children? Is it about marksmanship? Boredom? Letting off steam or tension, or perhaps pent up testosterone? (For statistics on children's suffering in Syria, click here)."

Israel in the Lead

Kathryn Jean Lopez's interview with Caroline Glick (March 20, 2014)

"GLICK: The two-state-solution policy assumes not only that guilt for the 65-year Arab war on Israel lies solely or predominantly on Israel's shoulders but that all Arab-related conflict too can be ascribed to the actions of Israel. The idea behind the policy model is that the root cause of instability in the region is the absence of a Palestinian state, and that the absence of a Palestinian state is Israel's fault.

Former president Bill Clinton put it this way: The establishment of a Palestinian state would "take about half the impetus in the whole world - not just the region, the whole world - for terror away. It would have more impact than anything else that could be done." And the party that most international actors view as guilty for the absence of a state of Palestine is Israel. Israel is blamed for the absence of that state because, in the common line of thinking, it refuses to give up sufficient quantities of land to the PLO to satisfy its leaders.

Now, if Israel is responsible for the terrorism - not just in the Middle East, but throughout the world - then there is no reason for anyone to think about anything that happens in the Arab world. Everything regionally and internationally will be better if Israel just straightens up and flies right. This is a shocking negation of Arab agency and humanity. If Israel is to blame, then why think about the treatment of women and girls in Arab societies? Why think about the endemic poverty, the illiteracy? Why think about jihad, and Islamic doctrines that preach it?

In other words, the two-state-solution policy, which places most of the blame for the pathologies of the Arab world on Israel, also ignores the Arab world, and so only harms the Arabs - and the U.S., which is basing its Middle East policy on pure nonsense."

Column One: The worst alternative

by Caroline Glick (March 20, 2014)

While he met with Obama, Abbas's adviser Sultan Abu al-Einein proclaimed that Mughrabi was the ultimate role model for Palestinian women.

In Einein's words, (reported by Palestinian Media Watch), 'In March, [we mark] Palestinian Women's Day, in March, Palestinian Mother's Day also occurs, in March... [we remember Dalal Mughrabi] who would not agree to anything other than to establish her state between Jaffa and Lebanon in her special way.'" 

"During the hostilities between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah in 2006, some Israeli troops found themselves in enemy territory, cut off from their units, and left without water to drink. As a result of that experience, Israeli entrepreneurs set out to find a way to provide drinking water to military troops in the most remote, inaccessible and dangerous locations.

The challenging scenario inspired the 'Atmospheric Water-Generator Unit,' a field device designed to suck water droplets out of the air and collect them into clean drinking water. The unit was invented by the Israeli company Water-Gen, founded by a former special forces commander in the Israel Defense Forces."