(American Spectator) Martin Sherman- The Palestinians' violent rejection of the far-reaching Barak initiative underscores that the chances of reaching a political resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are highly remote. Well over a decade after having the generous Oslo Accords virtually thrust upon them by an Israeli administration that acknowledged their claims for independence, the Palestinians have done nothing but produce a repressive and regressive interim regime run by cruel, corrupt thugs who have pillaged their people. Indeed, the Palestinian state has perhaps the unique distinction of achieving "failed state" status before it was actually established. The fuel of the conflict is not the lack of Palestinian self-determination but the existence of Jewish self-determination, and that as long as Jewish self-determination persists, so will the conflict. The goal of the Palestinians is not to establish a state for themselves but to dismantle a state for the Jews.
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