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December 11, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/110888/losing-hope-on-Israeli-Palestinian-peace

Losing Hope on Israeli-Palestinian Peace

(New Republic) Leon Wieseltier - I no longer believe that peace between Israelis and Palestinians will occur in my lifetime. Since 1977, and really since 1947, the Palestinians have refused one proposed solution after another, as if the "unviability" of an imperfect state is not preferable to the unviability of statelessness. Hamas maintains its terrorist and theocratic sway over Gaza, and criminally fires hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians. Mahmoud Abbas celebrates the attainment of observer-state status at the UN with a mean speech in which he accuses Israel of "one of the most dreadful campaigns of ethnic cleansing and dispossession in modern history," and of unprovoked "aggression" in Gaza, and of "an apartheid system of colonial occupation." The writer is the literary editor of The New Republic.

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