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...stand on the podium and look at the hundreds who have come to see you, I want you to know that amongst those eager to hear you is a young Palestinian who has parents and brothers in Ramallah, cousins in Nablus and aunts and uncles in Jenin and Gaza. This young man is me, and I believe that you, Mr. Peres, and I have so many things in common...
Ever since the beginning of the second Intifada, many in the world have asked whether Palestinians really wanted peace with Israel. Very few asked whether Israel was sincere in its efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace with the Palestinians. After all, settlements in the West Bank and Gaza started expanding at really high rates directly after the Oslo accords, during Yitzhak Rabin’s term as Prime Minister, and later during your term. This was followed by procrastination on Israel’s part in fulfilling the commitments it made at Oslo. The Palestinian state was supposed...
Today, other developments on the ground, including the unilateral disengagement plan from 17 Israeli settlements in Gaza, also puts into question Israel’s real intentions. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s adviser Dov Weisglass declared in an interview with Haaretz a few weeks ago that, “The significance of our (unilateral) disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with Palestinians...
...Number of Palestinians killed since Sept. 29 in Israel's latest Gaza offensive...
...relations between the two peoples after four years of relentless bloodletting. There is, quite simply, no peace process to speak of right now, and the clock may have been turned back 15 years. Palestinian institutions have largely collapsed, and real power on the streets of places such as Gaza is contest of wills between Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyr's brigade, on the one hand, and the Israeli Defense Force on the other. The Palestinians know they have been atrociously led by Arafat, but that doesn't make them any more forgiving of Israel and the U.S. Their despair...