(Jerusalem Post) Saul Singer - As David Ben-Gurion put it in 1919, "Everybody sees the problem in the relations between the Jews and the [Palestinian] Arabs. But not everybody sees that there's no solution to it. There is no solution!...I don't know any Arabs who would agree to Palestine being ours even if we learn Arabic....On the other hand, I don't see why "Mustafa" should learn Hebrew....There's a national question here. We want the country to be ours. The Arabs want the country to be theirs." The deal Sharon is offering the Palestinians is a partial state in exchange for a partial peace. You don't want to renounce the "right of return" and accept Israel as a Jewish state? Fine, says Sharon, but for that all you get is a truncated state whose borders are controlled by Israel. Sharon's real objective is to get to the middle phase of the road map and park there until the Arab world is ready for peace, which may or may not ever happen.
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