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Time for Palestinians to Wake Up to the Unshakable Reality of Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Dr. Alon Ben-Meir - Nothing has so undermined the Palestinian cause in the eyes of Israelis than their calls to have a state that extends from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, which would mean the extinction of Israel. It's time for the Palestinians to wake up to the unshakable reality that Israel will continue to exist no matter what anyone says or does. As long as a significant segment of Palestinians continue to proclaim "from the river to the sea," they will never realize their dream of statehood. For statehood to happen, the Palestinians must persuade the Israelis that they have no sinister design to wipe Israel off the map at a later stage. But Palestinians teach their students in school that Israeli Jews are the perpetual enemy, preparing the next generation to fight on until the bitter end. The writer is a professor of international relations at New York University.