Israel Matzav: George Will on Obama's appalling treatment of Israel

George Will on Obama's appalling treatment of Israel

On Monday night, George Will spoke at the Claremont Institute's dinner celebrating the Claremont Review of Books. Rick Richman was there, and reports on part of Will's speech that dealt with President Obama's Cairo speech on Israel (via Power Line).

After the speech, he took a few questions, including one that led him to reflect on President Obama’s apparent belief that disharmony among nations results from misunderstandings that can be cured by dialogue and communication (and the force of his own personality) -- a view that Will characterized as reflecting a 1930s approach to foreign policy:

We’ve seen this in his treatment of Israel in that remarkable speech, the atmospherics of which were fine, the specifics appalling.

I mean, in the 61 years since Israel was founded on one-sixth of one percent of land in that area described as land of the Arab world, there has not been a moment of peace for Israel, not as peace is properly understood.

How many Americans understand that when Israel was founded in 1948, no Palestinian state was invaded, no Palestinian state was destroyed? There had not been a Palestinian geographic entity since between the departure of the Romans and the arrival of British rule.

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Israel Matzav: George Will on Obama's appalling treatment of Israel