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My Fellow Palestinians: It's Time to Accept Israel's Offers for Peace
(Newsweek) Bassem Eid - As a Palestinian who genuinely yearns for a two-state solution and an improvement in living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza, I believe this truth must be told: It is Israel - and the Zionist Jewish community preceding independence - that consistently offered compromise, dialogue, and a two-state solution. And it is Palestinian demagogues who have rejected these openhanded offers - in favor of endless strife and the desire that the Jewish community be completely destroyed. It is the Palestinian Arab nationalist movement that has betrayed the Palestinian people and consistently opposed peace. Israel has consistently made genuine efforts toward peace, only to be met with rejection, treachery, and blood-curdling violence by the Palestinian side. This pattern of refusal, particularly epitomized by groups like Hamas, has been the real obstacle to peace. The writer is a Palestinian peace advocate, political analyst, and human rights pioneer who founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in 1996.