Islamochristians --- Naim Ateek of Sabil, and a handful of "Palestinian" Arabs who, in this country, have carefully worked their way up in various church bureaucracies, and the inimitable Hanan Ashrawi, who appears not to notice what has been happening to Christians in Bethlehem, and elsewhere in the "West Bank" and of course Gaza, and others have done their stuff.

But they had help. They had help from assorted antisemites, of the smiling Jimmy-Carter holier-than-thou variety, and then there are those who simply known nothing of the Lesser Jihad against Israel, nothing of the history of the Middle East or of its many non-Muslim and non-Arab minorities, and who seem remarkably unaffected or unaware not only of the asymmetry of the two sides in that particular Lesser Jihad against Israel, in which the Muslim side possesses 500 times the land area, and at least 100 times the population, and in natural resources, while Israel has virtually none (a little potash from the Dead Sea is about it), the Muslim Arabs, not even counting other, non-Arab Muslims, have received ten trillion dollars from oil revenues and are prepared to receive another ten or twenty or thirty in the future.

History is ignored. The facts are ignored. The truth is ignored, and at a certain point, the refusal to inquire into that truth bespeaks a viciousness that goes beyond any innocence, and can only be explained as old-fashioned antisemitism, made palatable, socially acceptable, by its seeming to be against a state when it is in fact against not a state but the particular tribe, or people, whose state that it; a moment's thought makes clear that were Jews not involved, the level of interest in the so-called "Palestinians," so sweetly and innocently and meretriciously described as merely an interest in seeing that "justice is done" and "peace is achieved" when in fact the justice is that of pushing Israel back, forcing it to make further suicidal concessions, and ignoring the legal, historic and moral claims that were recognized by the League of Nations and its Mandate for Palestine, claims that have only been strengthened by Israel's repulsion of the war made upon it, by every means, by the circumambient Arab states and that even had those legal, historic and moral claims not been sufficient, repelling an aggressor would have been so -- as would the precedent of the border changes that have occurred, after wars, from the beginning of time.

Do you think the borders of Czechoslovakia and Poland were wrongly enlarged at the expense of Germany after World War II? What about the transfer, from Austria, of the Sudtirol, to Italy, after World War I, only because Italy was on the winning side and Austria had for so long dominated northern Italy? Does it matter that 97% of the population of the Sudtirol (now the Alto Adige) consisted of ethnic Austrians, or Germans, who spoke German? And what of a hundred or five hundred similar examples of similar changes that might be cited, just in the last two centuries of warfare? Is there to be one rule for Israel, and another rule for every other conflict, and every other successful defender against aggression? Or should the same rules apply universally?

The nonsense about the "Palestinian people" and their so-called "nationalist" struggle has come to an end. Anyone of sense can see that the war on Israel remains exactly what it always was, was long before 1967, before the "Palestinian people" were invented and before there was a single Israeli soldier in the "West Bank" or Gaza.

The Muslim Arabs will never accept willingly the idea of an Infidel nation-state on land that was formerly possessed by Muslims, and they certainly will not accept it in the middle of Dar al-Islam. But they can be made to accept it, without any meaningless treaties, or that "peace process" that so many have spent their careers vainly promoting and still, therefore, have to believe in (otherwise what can Aaron Miller, or Richard Hass, or Dennis Ross, do to explain themselves, when they missed the point, they missed Islam, they missed the treaty of Al-Hudaibiyya, they wasted time, and meanwhile, years were lost when Islam should have been the object of intelligent, un-esposito'ed, study).

But that does not mean that the "peace" that comes from a situation where Israel is not weakened but made stronger, and obviously so, in order that Arab leaders may resist the call to go to war by invoking, and forever, the fact of necessity, of Darura -- and that will have to do, for any further concessions by Israel will not only whet rather than sate Arab appetites, but swell the sense of Muslim triumphalism that will have consequences far beyond Israel and the Middle East.