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September 15, 2008
Peace Now Activist No Longer
Yuval Steinitz at the Jerusalem Post offices.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
It's rare that a hard-core member of the EU financed Peace Now admits that the radical leftist organization is not just intellectualy bankrupt, but aids and abets the Jew-hating terrorists, and fosters policies which are leading Israel towards annihilation.
After a decade of attending rallies and protests, Yuval Steinitz was certain that peace had finally arrived when the first Oslo Accord was signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, exactly 15 years ago this week.
As a philosophy professor at the University of Haifa and an active member of Peace Now, Steinitz recalled that he went out that night with friends to celebrate the dawning of a new era for Israel.
But after two years, as the Palestinians armed themselves in the West Bank and suicide bombers began blowing themselves up in Israel, a disillusioned Steinitz came to the conclusion that instead of fostering peace, the accords that had held so much promise were actually leading Israel on a path to its demise.
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Posted by Robert J. Avrech at September 15, 2008 03:49 PM
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There's only one word to say about what this guy says:
"Yep"
Posted by: Jake at September 16, 2008 04:29 AM
One of the remarkable things about Steinitz is that he was wounded in the attack that killed Emil Grunzweig in 1983. And yet when he saw that Oslo wasn't working out as predicted, he changed.
I would hope he would have a high position in a Netanyahu government.
Here's something he wrote five years ago. And here's a sobering analysis from 1999.
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at September 16, 2008 07:25 AM
Jake:
I have another word: "Halleluyah."
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at September 16, 2008 02:03 PM
What's especially interesting about Dr. Steinitz (other than that he's a hawk teaching at Haifa) is that he was wounded in the attack on a Peace Now demonstration that killed Emil Grunzweig. (I believe that Avrohom Burg was also injured by the grenade. Since then, Burg followed a much different - but more predictable - political trajectory.)
Here are two more articles by Steinitz well worth reading.
One can only hope that he'll have a senior cabinet position in a Netanyahu administration.
Posted by: soccer dad at September 17, 2008 07:38 AM
As a hackneyed old saw has it, "We grow too soon old and too late smart."
Posted by: miriam's ideas at September 22, 2008 07:16 PM