Krauthammer: "The Miracle, at 60"

Charles Krauthammer is arguably our greatest living columnist. On the occasion of Israel's 60th birthday, he does not disappoint. Here's are two snippets:

Besides restoring Jewish sovereignty, the establishment of the State of Israel embodied many subsidiary miracles, from the creation of the first Jewish army since Roman times to the only recorded instance of the resurrection of a dead language -- Hebrew, now the daily tongue of a vibrant nation of 7 million. As historian Barbara Tuchman once wrote, Israel is "the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago."

Then, this:

One constantly hears about the disabling complexity of the Arab-Israeli dispute. Complex it is, but the root cause is not. Israel's crime is not its policies but its insistence on living.

You can read it in several places, including the Washington Post, RealClearPolitics, and Townhall.com.

Hat tip: Meryl Yourish and Soccerdad