Jack Ross had a sharp historical response to the news from Ma'ariv I blogged about earlier today:
I long felt that Israel's blockade and "withdrawal" from Gaza resembled nothing so much as Stalin's Ukrainian policy, but after reading Pat Buchanan's recent book I decided the better analogy was to the Allied starvation blockade of Germany during Versailles.
[Buchanan:
"In 1918, Germany accepted an armistice on Wilson’s 14 Points, laid down her arms and surrendered her High Seas Fleet. Yet,
once disarmed, Germany was subjected to a starvation blockade, denied
the right to fish in the Baltic Sea, and saw all her colonies and
private property therein confiscated by British, French and Japanese
imperialists, in naked violation of Wilson’s 14 Points."]
I was reminded of this by Ma'ariv's listing of the Israeli conditions on a
Palestinian state because they so mirror the unreasonable
demands of demilitarization imposed on Weimar Germany. In this
connection, I've always felt that the 2000 Camp David offer was somewhere in
between "generous" and bantustans.
Do the Israelis have some
subconscious determination to force the Palestinians to produce a
Hitler? What else to make of this bizarre new book by David Dalin
claiming that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem lobbied Hitler to adopt the Final Solution? Or for that matter my last girlfriend, who in the messageboard rant where I learned she was a rabid Zionist, defending Michelle Malkin's screed against Rachel Ray for wearing a kaffiyeh, said that a kaffiyeh is MORE offensive than a swastika?
