Bush is following the Sharon Doctrine: Peace is instability.
Foreign-policy differences in Israel, as in almost every country, emerge primarily from its internal debate. And those internal issues tend to grow in importance as foreign threats fade. Just as Winston Churchill discovered in 1945 and George Bush in 1992, victory abroad grants a society the room to engage internal issues. For Israel, this means that a successful peace process will expose and stimulate socio-political differences. That has dire implications for the Labor Party, which is threatened with unraveling as Israeli society adopts bourgeoisie citizenship and rejects Labor's European-socialist legacy.
Written in 1995 by David Wurmer, sprecial assistant to John Bolton, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control.
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