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Barak: We Will Never Yield to Terror

(Daily Californian - Berkeley) Emma Schwartz - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told an interviewer at Berkeley this week: We are in a war against terror and terror should not be rewarded. They should put an end to this violence as a precondition to restarting peace talks. In order to have a peace you need to have a partner. You cannot do peace alone. You can impose war on the other side, but you cannot impose peace. For 19 years [1948-1967], the Palestinians had 100 percent of the West Bank and 100 percent of Gaza under their control, including half of Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall. They never built a Palestinian state. Instead they attacked again. Once again we survived, and we will never be apologetic about it. The moment a Palestinian leadership will emerge that will be ready to live in peace, you will see immediately that the majority of the Israeli people support it, and there will be peace. The reason there is no peace now is not Israel, it is Palestinian leaders. Just two years ago in Camp David we were ready to let an independent Palestinian state be established and they rejected it. So now it's a different story, it's about a Palestinian attempt to dictate to Israel (and use) suicide bombing as a legitimate diplomatic tool. We would never, ever yield to it, period.
2002-11-22 00:00:00
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