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Turkey Can Teach Israel How to End Terror – NYTimes.com

July 24, 2014

Mustafa Akyol Author…The Kurds were not angry at Turkey because they were innately prone to violence. They were angry because Turkey had done something grievously wrong to them. And a peace agreement became possible only when the Turkish public and the state acknowledged this fact.

If Israel is ever going to achieve peace, Israelis will have to overcome their own self-righteous hawkishness as well and abandon the intellectually lazy reflex that explains Palestinian militancy as the natural product of Arab and Islamic culture’s supposedly violent nature.

It’s true that Hamas is a violent group and that it must stop firing rockets into Israel and calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. The ugliness of anti-Semitism in Palestine and the Arab world (and even in Turkey) must also be confronted. But these phenomena didn’t occur in a vacuum. They were created and are kept alive in part by Israel’s continued oppression of Palestinians….

via Turkey Can Teach Israel How to End Terror – NYTimes.com.

July 24, 2014 Filed Under: Political Tagged With: Israel, Middle East, War

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