The State Journal-Register · Springfield, Illinois · 22 October 2000
CP-2000-007
Israel has no ‘partners for peace’
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“JERUSALEM — Since 1948, when Israel was founded on one-sixth of 1 percent of the land carelessly called ‘the Arab world,’ the conflict has been not about what land Israel should occupy but whether it should occupy any land.
The conflict has been constantly violent but now, in today’s world climate of appeasement, the Palestinians’ violence is self-legitimizing: The assumption always is that they must have been provoked. Today, and as usual, the problem is not that Israel is being provocative, but that Israel’s being is provocative.
And now the potentially lethal asymmetry in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is this: Israel’s government desperately wants to end the conflict, the Palestinian Authority fiercely wants to win it.”
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Filed as a signed column, not as reporting. The archive first recorded it with a Jerusalem dateline and no author, which made a columnist’s argument look like a news dispatch.
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"Israel has no ‘partners for peace’," The State Journal-Register, 22 October 2000, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2000-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2000-007
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