Shusha
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The problem with the Op-Ed, like many international suggestions concerning the conflict, is that it assumes the conflict can be resolved without any input from the Palestinians and their government. It requires nothing from the Palestinians.
It should, at the very least, require the Palestinian government to:
It should, at the very least, require the Palestinian government to:
- recognize Israel as the Jewish National Homeland (State for the Jewish people, exactly equivalent to the idea of a State for the Arab Palestinian people)
- immediately cease all belligerency and incitement
- agree to negotiate on the basis of a permanent end-of-conflict agreement
- agree to negotiate without pre-conditions (especially pre-conditions requiring ethnic cleansing)