(Commentary/FrontPageMagazine) Efraim Karsh - There are limits to Israel's ability to transform a virulent enemy into a peace partner, and those limits have long since been reached. It is not the 1967 occupation that led to the Palestinians' rejection of peaceful coexistence and their pursuit of violence. Rather, what is at fault is the Arab view that the creation of the Jewish state was itself an original act of "inhuman occupation" with which compromise of any final kind is beyond the realm of the possible.
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