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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=221747
Land Now, Peace Maybe Later
(Jerusalem Post) Jonathan Schachter - For decades, the Israeli and American approaches to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have rested on the key assumption that Palestinian self-determination and a peace agreement are two sides of the same coin. The international community now has focused its attention almost exclusively on advancing Palestinian self-determination, with the link to peace all but severed. This is no trivial matter. Creation of a Palestinian state in the absence of a peace agreement stands to incentivize perpetual Palestinian aspirations to "liberate" the rest of Palestine, thereby guaranteeing that the conflict will go on for as long as the two states exist. The writer is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.