Yesterday, I posted a horrible item from the New York Times in which an American officer (advised by the wise Israeli military) maintained that the only language the Arabs understand is the language of force. Certainly, Israelis (and Zionists before the state of Israel was founded) operated on that assumption. I feel it necessarily to quote Hannah Arendt here (and she was a hard-core Zionist who gave money to militant right-wing Zionist groups at the end of her life, according to her biographer): She wrote:" All hopes to the contrary notwithstanding, it seems as though the ONE argument the Arabs are incapable of understanding is force." ("Peace or Armistice in the Near East?" in Review of Politics (January 1950), p. 56).