Friday, April 02, 2010

Jerusalem Post instructs Obama on Arab Rejectionism


Arab Rejectionism has insured that the peace process has gone nowhere

Rediscovering the Nature of Palestinian Rejectionism -Editorial

The Obama administration has evidently failed to internalize that a succession of ever-more generous peace offers from prime ministers Rabin, Barak, Sharon and Olmert were rebuffed by a Palestinian leadership that has yet to acknowledge Israel's legitimacy, much less begin to explain to its own people the imperative for compromise.

Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, 17 years of efforts under three presidents and six prime ministers have led nowhere. [W]e have yet to see signs of a Palestinian shift - toward true recognition of the Jewish state. That shift, so long overdue, is the key component of any viable peace effort. The sooner the U.S. utilizes its unique capacity to galvanize the necessary pressure, on the Palestinians and the wider Arab world, the better.
(Jerusalem Post)
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