(U.S. News) Mortimer B. Zuckerman - The Palestinians and their leaders in the Arab world - who created the whole tragedy by waging a war of extermination in the first place, second place, and third place - have shown no willingness to accept Israel, no matter what concessions are offered. Conflict management, not conflict resolution, is the only real option. Construction of the fence has been inaccurately described as some kind of major land grab. The opposite is true. Land is being yielded, and the fence constitutes only a minor modification of borders, one that can be adjusted to some degree by future negotiations of other Israeli territory. It is not a project conceived and supported by the Israeli right but by the Israeli center.
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