Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro could lose a potential vice-presidential nomination over an op-ed he wrote as a 20-year-old college student. Palestinians, he wrote in 1993, “are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.”
Mr. Shapiro’s more moderate critics blame Israeli intransigence rather than Palestinian truculence for the continuing conflict. Israelis, they say, are focused on expanding settlements in the West Bank rather than giving the Palestinians a chance to build their own state. The governor’s most vociferous critics simply want to kill Jews.
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