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March 5, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/opinion/05iht-edevrony.html

Your Enemies First Have to Recognize Your Right to Exist

(International Herald Tribune-New York Times) Zion Evrony - Critics of Israeli policy toward Hamas have drawn from Northern Ireland the view that "you must talk to your enemies." This is one part of the equation; the full equation is that your enemies first have to recognize your very right to exist. Hamas will have to abandon its extreme religious ideology, which calls for the establishment of an Islamic state over all the territory, including Israel today. Similarly, true reconciliation cannot be achieved between Israelis and Palestinians as long as incitement to hatred toward Israel continues among the Palestinians. Can we hope the time is near when Palestinian children, and children in Syria, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, will look at schoolroom maps that show the State of Israel alongside their own states? The writer is Israel's ambassador to Ireland.

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