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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.605307
The Palestinians Do Not Recognize the Jews' Right to a State
(Ha'aretz) Shlomo Avineri - The Palestinians don't think this is a conflict between two national movements. From their perspective, this is a conflict between the Palestinian national movement and an entity that is destined to vanish from the world. The analogy that appears in Palestinian textbooks sees all of Israel as Algeria, and that the Israelis will disappear just as the French settlers in Algeria did. The Israeli position talks about "two states for two peoples." But in the Palestinian version, the phrase "two peoples" doesn't appear. Those of us who supported Oslo must recognize that the Palestinians are genuinely uninterested in a solution of two states for two peoples because they're unwilling to grant legitimacy to the Jewish right of self-determination. The writer, professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, served as director-general of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.