PS

Palestinian Arab hostility towards waves of European colonists with ambitious territorial designs was hardly irrational. Nor was Palestinian outrage at the breathless hypocrisy of Western nations - Canada included - that shut their borders to Jewish refugees fleeing the Third Reich, but magnanimously voted at the UN to dismember Palestine.

For decades, Palestinians adamantly refused to "recognize" Israel; they were asked not only to renounce their homeland but also to legitimize their usurpers. At Oslo (1993) Palestinians unequivocally recognized Israel's right to exist and accepted a two-state solution. Intoxicated with power and a sugar daddy called Washington, Israel chooses occupation and settlements over peace.