We Europeans must never forget that we created the Middle East conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1831149,00.html
Justified criticism of Israeli policy needs to be informed by a sense
of our own historical responsibility
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday July 27, 2006
The Guardian
When and where did this war begin? Shortly after 9am local time on
Wednesday July 12, when Hizbullah militants seized Ehud Goldwasser and
Eldad Regev - Israeli reservists on the last day of their tour of duty
- in a cross-border raid into northern Israel? Friday June 9, when
Israeli shells killed at least seven Palestinian civilians on a beach
in the Gaza strip? January this year, when Hamas won the Palestinian
legislative elections, in a backhanded triumph for an American policy
of supporting democratisation? 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon? 1979,
with the Islamic revolution in Iran? 1948, with the creation of the
state of Israel? Or how about Russia in the spring of 1881?
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