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Title: | Arabs chose violence over 2 states- even over 1967`s one state | |||
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| Name: | James Adler | | |||
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| I have made Hass`s first point for years - in 1967 Israel essentially undid 1948`s Partition. The Arabs could have viewed 1967 as a triumph instead of defeat. They could have taken King`s and Gandhi`s nonviolent path of equal rights and citizenship in the de-partitioned Israel. The Arabs could have had their one state. But where Hass is wrong, is that they didn`t. Instead they continued the violence and threats against Israel that have always prevented peace. Now, the unavoidability of the 1967 war seems the same as the impossibility of Israel`s later withdrawal - the violence and threats against Israel from the beginning. I didn`t used to believe this - I used to believe the opposite. But I have changed my mind. History, from Arafat`s rejection of Barak`s offer to the Qassam attacks from Gaza, even after Israel`s withdrawal, has become impossible to ignore. |
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