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Vic Alhadeff is incorrect when he claims that the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian problem. In 2002 the Arab League unanimously offered full normalisation of relations and comprehensive peace agreements with Israel if it would withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and return to its recognised borders. Last year the offer was reiterated. On both occasions Israel ignored the offer and pressed ahead with its program of expanding Jewish settlements throughout the West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem. In March the Israeli Housing Ministry acknowledged that it was using the period of "calm" that followed the Annapolis Peace Conference to accelerate the expansion of Jewish settlements in and around East Jerusalem. In his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, former US President Jimmy Carter wrote: "The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of the majority of its own citizens - and honour its own previous commitments - by accepting legal borders." It is Israel's refusal to do so, not Arab intransigence, that lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Michael Shaik Link |
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