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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/israeli-sovereignty-not-appeasement-key-lasting-peace-opinion-1504644
Israeli Sovereignty, Not Appeasement, Is the Key to Lasting Peace
(Newsweek) Caroline Glick - Since 1937, Israel has consistently agreed to share its land with the Palestinians and the Palestinians have consistently refused peace. Since 2000, Israel has made three separate offers of peace that involved Israel surrendering nearly all of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians and repartitioning Jerusalem. The Palestinians rejected all of Israel's offers. The notion that people who demand the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem will ever live at peace with the Jewish state is manifestly absurd. The U.S. peace plan is the first with any chance of success because it rejects the notion that Israel is to blame for the Palestinians' 100-year refusal to accept the Jewish people's right to self-determination and independence in their ancestral homeland. It accepts the fact that Israel has both legal and national rights to sovereignty in its national home, including in Judea and Samaria. It also accepts that Israel cannot defend itself and secure its future without permanent control over its eastern frontier in the Jordan Valley. Finally, the plan rejects the Palestinian demand for the ethnic cleansing of Jews.