The European Union on Sunday warned incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if he doesn’t work toward the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state, ties between Europe and the Jewish state are likely to turn hostile.

The warning came from EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who told reporters, “Let me say very clearly that the way the European Union will relate to a government that is not committed to a two-state solution will be very, very different.”

Netanyahu ran for prime minister on a platform of freezing the current land-for-peace process because the Palestinians had demonstrated that any land surrendered to them would be used to further threaten Israelis.

Instead, Netanyahu wants to focus on boosting the Palestinian economy and bettering those parts of the Palestinians’ lives that they use as an excuse for their terrorist behavior.

That approach has also riled the Obama Administration in Washington, which recently made clear that it will accept no other outcome to the Middle East peace process than the birth of “Palestine.”

This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines the various core beliefs and ultimate objectives associated with the terms “liberal,” “left,” and “progressive.” Below is an excerpt from a letter published in David Horowitz’s book The Politics of Bad Faith. In this letter, which Horowitz wrote to a former leftist compatriot, the author identifies the essence of the progressive mindset:

“. . .The rich are not on the same side as the rest of us. They exploit. [That] radical truth (which is your truth still) is the class war of the social apocalypse, the war that divides humanity into the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots,’ who are oppressed, into those who are paid well for their efforts and those who are denied, into the just and the unjust, into their side and ours. The radical truth is the permanent war that observes no truce and respects no laws, whose aim is to destroy the only world we know.

“This is the compassionate cause that makes radicals superior to ordinary humanity and transforms the rest into ‘class enemies’ and unpersons and objects of contempt.

“Take a careful look at what you believe, because it is the dark center of the radical heart: not compassion, but resentment — the envious whine of have not and want; not the longing for justice, but the desire for revenge; not a quest for peace, but a call to arms. It is war that feeds the true radical passion, which are not altruism and love, but nihilism and hate.”

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