It Just Won't Work

Daryl Temkin, who has a Ph.D., and is the director of the Israel Education Institute which is devoted to teaching history and contemporary issues of Israel to Jews and Non-Jews, sent me his article and I excerpted this bit:-

Attempting to disprove basic laws of physics rarely proves successful. Expecting two enemy states to suddenly harmoniously exist side by side in the same area, when the Arab state refuses to recognize the existence of the Jewish state, yet alone daily affirms its religious dictums to destroy the Jewish state, is not only a serious problem contradicting displacement theory but is also no different than the exploding science laboratory fiasco where the mixture of elements are a known guaranteed disaster.

Forcing a lion and a lamb to lie down together is not a problem for the lion, but it is a big problem for the lamb. No matter how many promises of peaceful behavior the lion should claim to commit, upon its first violation, the world will immediately excuse the lion for acting like a lion. All that the lamb can do is wait to be a victim, and the world will say, “Why should the lion be expected to be so perfect?”

Forcing the creation of a Palestinian state upon Israel is a serious problem which not only is asking a lamb to lay down next to a lion, but under the current conditions, it is tantamount to the attempt to disprove laws of nature, physics, and the historic record of human relations.

When bath water rises and threatens to spill over, it’s true that many people will not notice that there is a lesson to be learned or a law of physics to be discovered. But for those who can see that the law of displacement has a meaning much deeper than just spilt water, the world suddenly looks much different and deserves a response which recognizes the physical realities that will not disappear just because someone has a fantasy dream and says it can be done.