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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21310/palestinian-statehood-denied
Who Really Denied Statehood to the Palestinian People?
(Gatestone Institute) Alan M. Dershowitz - One of the most pervasive myths of the Palestinian protest movement is that Israel has denied statehood to the Palestinian people. To the contrary, Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood in 1937-1938, 1947-1948, 1967, 2000-2001, and 2007. In each case, it was the Palestinian leadership that refused to agree to the two-state solution that would have created a Palestinian state alongside a state for Jewish inhabitants. Other stateless groups such as the Tibetans, the Kurds, and the Chechens have never even been offered statehood, let alone repeatedly turned it down. It was the Palestinians themselves, through their anti-Jewish leadership, that has made the Palestinian people stateless. The current anti-Israel protesters in the West are not calling for a Palestinian state living in peace alongside Israel. They just want to end Israel's existence. It is not going to happen. Until the Palestinians recognize this reality, they will be denying themselves any possibility of statehood. The writer is Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School.