Palestinians Have Avoided Opportunities for Statehood -Yossi Alpher
The Palestinians, backed and at times manipulated by the Arab world, have done nearly everything possible to avoid setting up their own state. They:
The Palestinians, backed and at times manipulated by the Arab world, have done nearly everything possible to avoid setting up their own state. They:
*rejected UN Resolution 181 in 1947 and attacked Israel, thereby precipitating war and exile.
*avoided creating a state in the West Bank and Gaza between 1949 and 1967
*created UNRWA which perpetuated rather than solved their refugee problem
*rejected Egypt and Israel's offer of autonomy in 1978
*failed at state-building under Oslo after 1993
*invoked suicide terrorism that alienated some of their most ardent Israeli supporters
*failed at consolidating the territorial foundations of a state after Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza in 2005.
The writer is former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
(BitterLemons.org)
*avoided creating a state in the West Bank and Gaza between 1949 and 1967
*created UNRWA which perpetuated rather than solved their refugee problem
*rejected Egypt and Israel's offer of autonomy in 1978
*failed at state-building under Oslo after 1993
*invoked suicide terrorism that alienated some of their most ardent Israeli supporters
*failed at consolidating the territorial foundations of a state after Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza in 2005.
The writer is former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
(BitterLemons.org)
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