“For many years the West has made the error of thinking Arab friendship can be gained by political appeasement with economic and military gifts and loans. This glaring fallacy has been exposed on many occasions but the policy persists... No amount of appeasement will make any Arab State love us; they hate us; but worse, they despise us. We should not mind hatred, but we can make them respect us”.
It was Richard Meinertzhagen, friend of Israel, who died on this day in 1967. Click above, and read about his life. (Thanks to Solly Ezekiel, who passed the link along.)
