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Israelis Compelled by Reality to Be Hawks

(Times of Israel) Yossi Klein Halevi - As ideological schisms deepen in America, Israeli society has gone a long way toward managing its own internal schisms. Take the issue of the future of the territories won in the 1967 Six-Day War. Most Israelis today agree about the dangers of occupying another people. And that same majority agrees about the dangers of trying to make peace with a Palestinian national movement that doesn't recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state in any borders. The result is that most Israelis want to be doves, but feel compelled by reality to be hawks. The writer is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
2013-10-23 00:00:00
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