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June 2, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2009/05/29/quot-in-the-west-bank-we-have-a-good-reality-we-are-having-a-good-life-quot.aspx

What's the Rush for a Palestinian State?

[New Republic] Marty Peretz - "In the West Bank we have a good reality....We are having a good life," Mahmoud Abbas, the putative president of putative Palestine, told Washington Post journalist Jackson Diehl. Then what's the rush? And what's the panic? If the Palestinians are content with their situation in the West Bank, as Abbas says they are, they also have little incentive to make any compromises. This just about knocks the wind out of Obama's whole Palestinian state initiative.

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