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Source: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=226386
Aumann: Palestinians Need Incentives for Peace
(Jerusalem Post) Greer Fay Cashman - Nobel Prize laureate Yisrael Aumann, an expert in game theory, told participants in the third Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, "If you want peace, be prepared for war." "We have to improve the [Palestinians'] quality of life, and enable movement and commerce to be as free as possible" while responding to provocations in an immediate and predictable way, he said. "We have to insist on the Oslo provision calling for education for peace and tolerance. It's the most important provision in the Oslo Accords - and the least remembered. We have to work to create incentives for peace so that they will change their goals. The most intelligent kids swallow all the hate and then they become the leaders." Aumann did not see any prospect of peace in the near future. "We're not going to fix things now," he said. "It will take a long time. We have to start a big campaign for the way children are taught in the territories." While Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is promoted as a moderate, "the moment he makes a peace agreement with us, he'll be out of power."