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01/03/2005:

"The Trouble with Optimism"

By Kathleen Christison
We need to be very clear on one vital point about Palestinian-Israeli relations, particularly in this time of promised movement toward peace: there will be no real Palestinian state anytime in the foreseeable future, and this will not be the Palestinians' fault. Despite all the Cheshire-cat optimism in the media and among politicians around the world since Yasir Arafat's death, despite the sanctimonious hopes that Palestinian "terrorism" will end now that Arafat is gone, despite the patronizing visions of Palestinian "reform," despite the demise of the Palestinian bogeyman who supposedly stood as the only obstacle to peace, we must not lose sight of the fact that there will be no Palestinian independence, and therefore no peace and no justice, anytime soon, for the simple reason that Israel does not want it.
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