(Miami Herald) Frida Ghitis - There is little doubt that Israel is the Jewish homeland. The UN established it that way, and the international community recognizes it as such. Why ask Palestinians, who dislike that fact, to restate the obvious? Yet the intensity of the Palestinians' rejection of the idea has uncovered such a fundamental challenge to the "two-state solution'' that I am now persuaded that true, lasting peace may never come unless Palestinians and other Arabs openly accept Israel as a Jewish nation. Jewish nation, of course, does not mean special rights for Jews or second-class status for non-Jews. Israel is a democratic country whose laws clearly spell out equality for all citizens. As long as Palestinians continue denying the ancient connection between Jews and the Land of Israel, as long as they reject the Jewish people's right to a state, any peace agreement will be written in sand.
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