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...Palestinian leadership must be willing to look deep into its society’s culture and values and be ready to condemn those aspects that are antithetical to a potential peace with Israel. Saying that the Jews are the Palestinians?? cousins while continuing to teach Palestinian children that those cousins are treacherous and disloyal will only continue to deter a true peace between the two peoples. Palestinian youths must be taught that anti-Semitism is immoral, and Palestinian leaders have a responsibility to address their society’s flaws rather than simply blaming others...
...have a duty and obligation to try. When the Bush administration declared earlier this year that it would not actively try to bring Israel and the Palestinian Authority to the bargaining table, many Arabs took that as an indication that the U.S. did not care about the Palestinians?? plight. For regardless of all that happened in the past, the Palestinians are now undeniably in a position of weakness. Without American intervention, they cannot hope to win significant concessions from Israel. Though former President Clinton’s efforts to find a compromise narrowly failed, at least he gave...
...exactly sure what to make of Charles D. Cheever’s piece, “Native Americans and Native Palestinians?? (Op-Ed, Oct. 15). Or rather, I should say that I am not sure what I found more disturbing, his gross oversimplifications or his faulty analogies...
...Responding to bin Laden’s statements, Arafat rightly said that he would not allow anyone to use Palestinians?? struggles to justify killing thousands of American civilians. It is now time for him to apply that rhetoric to Palestinian terrorists. He must realize that doctors, stockbrokers and children in Tel Aviv and Haifa have the same right to live their lives in peace as those in New York City...
...those who rely on such generally first-class publications as The New York Times for their news, it would appear that Israel is under siege by the Palestinians??even though Israel occupies Palestinian land. In the language of the Times and most other American daily papers, Israeli soldiers seldom “kill” or “shoot” Palestinian protesters; instead, Palestinians??rarely described in terms of their humanity—“die” mysteriously in “clashes” and in “cross-fires...