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Media Still Asking the Wrong Questions on the Mideast

(Commentary) Seth Mandel - The Washington Post asks whether the relative safety brought about by systems like Iron Dome will make Israel more likely to agree to territorial compromise or more likely instead to ignore the cause of peace and negotiations. But the more important point, one the media keeps missing, is that nothing is keeping Israel away from the negotiating table. For all the criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's presumed reluctance to make peace, Netanyahu has been for years now offering to resume negotiations without preconditions. It is Mahmoud Abbas who piles on precondition after precondition in an attempt to avoid negotiations. The Washington Post can save its hand wringing for Netanyahu's supposed interlocutor, who seems to have come up with many reasons not to participate in the peace process. Israeli reluctance to come to the table, however, isn't one of them.
2012-12-12 00:00:00
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