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March 17, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr1.php

The Arrogance of "Viability"

(bitterlemons.org) Yossi Alpher - On the face of it, the Palestinian state that most of us envisage already has three strikes against it when it comes to assessing its viability. First, the history of states that are split into two separate, non-contiguous geographical entities - in the Palestinian case, Gaza and the West Bank - is not very promising. Witness the fate of Pakistan/Bangladesh several decades ago. Secondly, "Palestine" never functioned as a coherent Arab political entity until the advent of the PA in 1994, and that experience has proven a failure. And third, Palestine's disastrous economic and demographic situation can hardly be described as self-sustaining. Nor do all of Palestine's neighbors necessarily fully legitimize its claim to statehood; here I am referring to Syria.

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