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...once again seems true--that the more things change, the more they tragically stay the same. In our 1948 cover story on the Israeli victory and its hero, David Ben-Gurion, we wrote that it was "time to stop pondering the settled question of whether there would be a Jewish state, time to start asking what kind of nation Israel...
That is the question we are again asking this week as we ponder not only Israel's endgame with Gaza but also what the future holds for the Jewish state. Tim McGirk, our Jerusalem bureau chief, poses the toughest questions facing Israel: Is a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine still possible? Will Israel's hostile neighbors ever acknowledge and adapt to its existence? These are the issues that Israel and the world must reckon with...
...region fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1517, under whose sway it remained for four centuries, until the dissolution of the Empire following World War 1. After World War II, a massive influx of Jews to the British Mandate of Palestine and the partitioning of the territory into separate Jewish and Arab states led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreement gave Jordan control over the West Bank region of Palestine while Egypt gained control of Gaza...
...under Egyptian military rule until Israel reoccupied the strip following the 6-day war against the Arab States in 1967. Gaza and the West Bank remained under Israeli occupation and military control for nearly 30 years, during which the Palestinians of the region struggled achieve independence while clashing with Jewish settlers encroaching into Palestinian territories...
...line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees, but without recognizing Israel." -Defining Hamas's position as being amenable to a long-term truce whereby Palestinians and Israelis would live side by side, though he reiterated that Hamas would not formally recognize the Jewish state...