PRAGUE — The Middle East tends to evoke bitter sentiments to the entire world, precisely because of what it forces us to confront within ourselves. Just as a doctor in the Tenth Century had to ignore the screams of his patient, Hamas must now be purged to save the Two State Solution. Still, how do we weigh this responsibility against the burden of human lives which will be lost?
Principles sometimes only emerge under hardship, when we are forced to discover what we will and what we won’t change, at our own convenience. As a Czech and an elected politician, I belong to the world of legal nation states and I support Western values as summarized by the charters of the UN and the European Union. However, an ancient pulse still beats beneath the freshly poured foundations of the modern order on which we all stand.
