Government is Incomplete Conquest

... at least as they saw it. And who were the Nobel Peace Prize winners, Yasser Arafat and Yitzakh Rabin? They were warriors. In fact, many of the leaders of both Israel and Fatah started out as terrorists, later transformed into peace-loving statesmen. Edmund Burke noted that it is best to draw "a secret veil...over the beginnings of all governments," and not dwell too long over the unsavory facts of a state's origins. Burke was worried that a frequent and open discussion of a state's ...