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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/west-bank-facts-on-the-ground-cannot-be-ignored/
West Bank Facts Cannot Be Ignored
(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - The Jewish population in the West Bank is rapidly approaching half a million, making any peace deal based on a mass evacuation of these communities a fantasy. If the Palestinians want a deal, it will have to be one that accepts that the existing Jewish communities, as well as Jerusalem's Jewish neighborhoods, will remain part of Israel under any circumstances. Otherwise, the Palestinian leadership has doomed its people to a situation in which they are mired in a conflict that offers no exit ramp. The choice for peace remains, as it always has been, in the hands of the Palestinians themselves. It is they who must either agree to share the land with the Jews or lose more ground.