OTHER, VIEWS
The Mall Model For Mideast Peace
the release of terrorists.
Jerusalem
Without a Palestinian state.
had an e-mail the other
Without the permission of
day from some fine fellow
Yasser Arafat. Or Ariel Sharon.
who was all upset.
Or George Bush.
"According to you,
Now, what lessons can we
there will never be peace
learn about how to actually
between Israelis and the
achieve Mideast peace from the
Palestinians," he fumed.
Jerusalem Mall? I'll tell you.
Not so, dear sir. In fact, if you
NA OMI
You can only enter the mall if
lived here in Jerusalem as I do,
RA GEN
you
have no weapons. The rea-
surrounded by Muslim Arabs,
Spe cial
son
Jew
and Arab can sit peace-
you'd know that in many places,
Comm entary
fully side by side enjoying life
we already have peace.
and each other's company, is
All you'd have to do is go to
that anyone who wants to get into the
that great center of Jerusalem day and
mall is carefully checked for weapons
night life — The Mall, a large three-
before he's allowed to enter.
tiered structure housing restaurants (all
That's right. All cars are checked,
kosher), movie theaters and hundreds of
included the boot and back seat. People
stores of all kinds. (I don't have to tell
get their bags checked. They are wanded.
you, right? It's a mall.)
Get rid of the terrorists. Get rid of the
What's different here is that you will
find, sitting around the fountains outside illegal weapons. Stop up the tunnels
bringing weapons from Egypt to Gaza.
Pizza Hut, Arab families, with children
Deport arch terrorists like Arafat. Keep
in baby carriages, munching pizza beside
all the jailed terrorists under lock and
Jewish families from neighborhoods in
key, and destroy the Hamas and Islamic
Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].
Jihad and Fatah to the last building and
Look at them, enjoying the air condi-
the last man.
tioning, and happily feeding their little
And then you might not have peace,
ones from paper cups filled with ice
but
you will have Arab and Jew sitting
cream on a summer evening.
side by side with their families on a cool
All this without a road map. Without
summer evening, making an attempt to
Naomi Ragen is a New York City author quietly live their lives and solve their dif-
who made aliyah in 1972. Her e-mail
ferences. E
address is nragen@netmedia.net.il
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terror, terror, terror.
But the most ingeniously barbarous
Palestinian societal invention, surpass-
ing any other in imaginative novelty, is
the recruiting of children to blow them-
selves up with the aim of destroying as
many Jews as possible in the most
crowded sites accessible. These are not
so much acts of anti-history as they are,
remarkably, instances of anti-instinct.
The drive to live is inherent: The very
mite crawling on this sheet as I write
hastens to flee the point of my pen. The
child who has been taught to die and to
kill from kindergarten on via song and
slogan in praise of bloodletting repre-
sents an inconceivable cultural ideal.
And it is a cultural grotesquerie that
Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantissi, a pediatrician
entrusted by his vocation with the heal-
ing of children, is, in fact, a major
recruiter of young suicide bombers.
en his wife was asked by a neighbor
why her husband did not outfit his own
teenage son in a bomber's vest, the good
doctor instantly sent the boy abroad.)
Confronted by this orgiastic deluge
of fanaticism and death, there are
some who would apply the term psy-
chopathological. But it is metaphysics,
not Freud, that is at stake:
The life force traduced, cultism
raised to a "sinister spiritualism — not
because the "martyrs" are said to earn
paradise, but because extraordinary
transformations of humane under-
standing are hounded into being.
A Palestinian ethos of figment and fan-
tasy has successfully infiltrated the West,
particularly among intellectuals, who are
always seduced by novelty. We live now
with an anti-history wherein cause and
effect are reversed. Protection against
attack is equated with the brutality of
attack. Existential issues are demoted or
ignored — "cycle of violence" obfusca-
tions all zealously embraced by the State
Department and the European Union.
The road map permits no contradic-
tion to the Palestinians' emerging
nationhood. But if it is teachings and
usages that characterize a nation, then
what rough beast, its hour come
round at last, slouches out of
Bethlehem to be born? LT
— Reprinted from the Wall Street
Journal © 2003 Dozy Jones &
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