Building peace quietly

You don't have to look very far to find negative news items about Israel. A plethora of such stories appear thoughout the media with depressing regularity. But as Tom Gross writes in the Wall Street Journal, there are chinks of light out there, even in that most difficult of spheres: Israeli/Palestinian relations in West Bank.

"The truth is that an independent Palestine is now quietly being built, with Israeli assistance," Gross writes.

"Israelis and Palestinians may never agree on borders that will satisfy everyone. But that doesn't mean they won't live in peace. Not all Germans and French agree who should control Alsace Lorraine. Poles and Russians, Slovenes and Croats, Britons and Irish, and peoples all over the world, have border disputes. But that doesn't keep them from coexisting with one another. Nor—so long as partisan journalists and human rights groups don't mislead Western politicians into making bad decisions—will it prevent Israelis and Palestinians from doing so."

For the whole article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870410710457457149140184751...