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Source: http://tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030120&s=diarist012003
The Immaturity of Palestine
(New Republic) - Martin Peretz Many peoples have pursued statehood in modern history, and only the Palestinians have pursued it so barbarically. Terrorism is about the sum total of what the Palestinians have bestowed on our civilization during the last five decades. The intifada has not only brought current agony to nascent Palestine; it has guaranteed that economic misery will continue far into the future. In the coming months, a wall, urged upon Israel by many of its foolish doves and many of its foolish hawks, separating much of the disputed territories from the Israel-to-be, will be an established fact. When (and if) there is a peace agreement, the borders will not again be open for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers to share in the prosperity that will surely return to Israel.