MacArthur, not Eisenhower

Submitted by Henry Wyatt, PhD (United States), Dec 20, 2016 at 12:26

You erred in attributing "no substitute for victory" to Eisenhower. It was Douglas MacArthur's coinage.

My own views on Israel/Palestine are more often than not at variance with yours, and my Zionism is more pallid than yours. I do agree with you about the perfidy on the Palestine side, which critics of Israel and Zionism always ignore. I would add, however, that the war between Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Arabs is an ethnic war, each claiming the moral right to possess the land in toto---not much different than those elsewhere in the region, or in the Balkans, and is equally insoluble.

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