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May 17, 2009 9:28 am
Contrary to the leaks from the Obama Administration, a peace between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu has little to do with the Middle East. Mr. Obama expects from the visit of Mr. Netanyahu a restatement of Bush-Olmert declaration of two states solution. If Mr. Netanyahu agrees to that, as he probably would, the outcome will be little different from what was achieved by Mr. Olmert.
A peace can only be accomplished by Israelis and Palestinians. At present it is unknown who Palestinians are. Forty percent or more of them support Hamas, whose charter not only calls for elimination of Israel, but also claims that Jews, for financial gains, caused the First and Second World Wars as well as the French and Russian Revolutions and many more troubles. Strategically, as can be seen in the geography schoolbooks in the West Bank, there is no difference between Hamas and Fatah, notwithstanding that, the two factions are unable to form one state for the future two states solution. The Palestinians Muslims, unable to live in peace among themselves, and certainly not with Christian compatriots, whom they practically forced out from Jaffa and Jerusalem, must convince the Israeli public, that they are able and willing to live in peace with the Jews, as President Saadat did 30 years ago.
The Israelis have to show that they respect the Palestinian nation. These are difficult tasks. Perhaps, Mr. Lieberman the hawk Foreign Minister, and Mr. Marwan Barguti, a Palestinian leader serving a jail term in Israel, can, far away from Washington, start a pragmatic discussion about the first steps.
— Aharon Meytahl, Vestal, New York
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