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Source: http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2007/11/24/pf-4681351.html
Sixty Years of Arab Rejection
[Toronto Sun] Salim Mansur - Sixty years ago on November 29, 1947, the UN passed the resolution on partitioning Palestine, held by Britain under the League of Nations mandate, into two states: One Arab and one Jewish. At any time during the years since then, the Arab states could have acknowledged the rights of Jews to a state in Palestine, accepted the UN resolution on partition, negotiated the details of coexistence, assisted the Palestinians with their state, and received support of the great powers, including the U.S., in meeting the needs of their people and bringing prosperity to the region given the resources available. But the Arab position was a resounding "three nos" as duly spelled out after the June 1967 war: No peace and no negotiation with and no recognition of Israel. The great lie repeatedly told in the Mideast, and swallowed whole or in part in the West, is that the U.S.' unconditional support for Israel stands in the way of just peace in the region. What is implicit in this lie is the meaning of just peace. For the Arab and Muslim supporters of Hamas, Hizbullah, al-Qaeda and the Iranian acolytes of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, just peace requires the rollback of Israel and returning Jews to the secondary status of "dhimmi" (protected people) as provided by Islamic laws when Arabs were empire builders.