The Patriot Ledger · 20 August 2003
CP-2003-020
American policy leaves Palestinians no hope
Bill Maxwell
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him into an untrustworthy partner in peace. States made, under the leadership of George W. By BILL MAXWELL Bush, was to isolate Palestinian Authority Israel, for example, released more than 330 Scripps Howard News Service Chairman Yasser Arafat, the elected leader of Palestinian prisoners the other day ostensibly the Palestinian people.
Demonized by Israel as an unsolicited gesture of good will. But hold If the Jews are God's chosen people, then the and by most Americans, Arafat has been the on.
A large number of the prisoners were to be Palestinians are God's cursed people. unwilling victim of a sophisticated shell I cannot think of a single, substantive, long- released in a few weeks and months anyway. game. lived good thing that has happened for the Hamas and other terrorist groups are not fooled Arafat is not blameless in the Holy Land's Palestinians during my lifetime (I was born in
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"American policy leaves Palestinians no hope," The Patriot Ledger, 20 August 2003. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2003-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2003-020
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