Ralph Peters capturing the essence of Israel and its enemies

Ralph Peters is as pungent as ever:

Eight hundred years after a blood-spattered English king swung his sword by Jaffa's walls, ... the enemy remain[s] the same ... The struggle may never end.

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the settlers and their children who built Israel did more than [make 'the desert bloom' and] irrigate orange groves. They built a civilization where there had been [and in places like Gaza, still is] only neglect, decay and oppression.