Comments by Ehud Ya'ari, Israeli journalist

Submitted by Jeff Burke (Canada), Nov 25, 2006 at 07:51

Dr Pipes:

While I do believe that as a society, Arab Muslims are vengeful, blood thirsty and are death worshippers, Israel ( the incredible shrinking country) has made some bad mistakes which you have written about and still continues to.

1) Egypt Peace treaty

2) WIthdrawal from Lebanon

3) Withdrawal from Gaza

4) Election of Kadimah

5) Continued political consultations with the duplicit EU including Turkey

6) Tactics, strategies re Hamas War 2006

Despite impressive economic growth, I remain pesimistic on its future unless certain bold initiatives are taken.

If there is to be a demise of Israel, I believe that the Israeli GOvt and Israeli media are to blame by wasting resources and access to resources in trying to gain the hearts and minds of the muslim world.

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