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Source: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/settlements-and-the-smelling-salts-brigade/
Does the U.S. Decision on Settlements Doom Peace with the Palestinians?
(Commentary) John Podhoretz - After the decision by the State Department to declare that Israeli settlements in the disputed territories of the West Bank are not inherently illegal or illegitimate, the New York Times declared that this might "doom any peace efforts with Palestinians," as though there are any peace efforts with the Palestinians to doom right now or in the foreseeable future. For the past decade, the Palestinians have withdrawn from any realistic effort to forge a future for themselves in a land they might take as a state, and torpedoed negotiations when and if they ever got anywhere near a resolution.