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The Road to Peace


(Wall Street Journal) Ruth Wisse - The White House still cannot bring itself to admit the true nature of the aggression against Israel. It still tends to treat the crisis as "a conflict of two people over one land" that can be resolved by the creation of a Palestinian state. According to this view, since Jews and Arabs both lay claim to the same territory of Israel-Palestine, some division of the territory between them will bring about a peaceful resolution. This is the assumption behind the "road map." Unfortunately, the Arab war against Israel is no more a territorial conflict than was al Qaeda's strike against America, and it can no more be resolved by the "road map" than anti-Americanism could be appeased by ceding part of the U.S. to an Islamist enclave. It is futile to pretend that the Arab obsession with Israel is compatible with Palestinian independence.
2003-06-20 00:00:00
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