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Source: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/05/david-frum-where-is-the-palestinian-state-in-embryo/
"Palestine:" A State in Name Only
(National Post-Canada) David Frum - Palestinian nationalism often seems a mirror-image of the Zionist project, but with one crucial difference: Over the half century before the foundation of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement built not only a proto-government and the elements of an army, but charitable institutions, educational institutions, even artistic institutions. When it came, that state did not have the boundaries its most ardent supporters would have wished for. Much of the Jewish homeland lay outside the Jewish state, and remains outside that state to this day. But the practice of realism defined the founding generation of the state as much as the ideal of self-reliance. They accepted less than they dreamed of in order to achieve at least something of what they aspired to.