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Source: http://www.tnr.com/article/world/88730/obama-middle-east-speech-netanyahu-israel
Yes, We Can't
(New Republic) Yossi Klein Halevi - Alone among national movements, only the Palestinian cause conditions its dream of statehood on the disappearance of another state. Watching Turkey turn Islamist and pro-Iranian, Lebanon being devoured by Hizbullah, Hamas legitimized by Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood rising in Egypt, and Iran's nuclear program proceeding apace, Israelis are hardly likely to risk another withdrawal, this time from our most sensitive border, and without even the pretense of a peace agreement.