(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Mahmoud Abbas told Egyptian journalists in Cairo this week that the state he wants Israel to give him must be judenrein: "In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli - civilian or soldier - on our lands." Abbas' words do not exactly enhance a mood of reconciliation. If the Israeli public is to back a deal, it will need some sense of goodwill from the other side. There is a substantial Arab minority in Israel. If there is to be peace, why is it a given that there can be no Jewish minority in "Palestine."
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