Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

May 17, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=220694

Why George Mitchell Failed

(Jerusalem Post) Tawfik Hamid - Approaching the Arab-Israeli conflict from the perspective that it is about land, so that giving more land to the Palestinians will solve the problem, is a failed endeavor. Israel has already given Egypt the whole of the Sinai, and got nothing in return except a cold peace and rising anti-Semitism in the country. Similarly the disengagement from Gaza did not magically lead to a decline in the wave of anti-Semitism in the Muslim world. Until U.S. envoys to the Middle East realize that the problem in the eyes of the Palestinians is not the borders of Israel but the very existence of the country, all future missions will similarly fail. The writer is a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: