Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
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Israel and Syria will begin indirect negotiations in Instanbul in a few weeks, in an effort to reach a peace agreement. (...) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz on Wednesday that 'there had been a development in Syrian positions and the contacts with Syria are a historic breakthrough.' Olmert added that 'these exchanges have been ongoing for a long time and they have now matured.'
