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The Demands of Palestinian Dignity Are Too Great
(Wall Street Journal) Stuart Creque - Walter Russell Mead writes that for a Palestinian consensus for peace to emerge, "Palestinians would need to see realistic proposals for a two-state solution that respects their dignity and responds to their needs" (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 6). The problem is that, on available evidence from surveys of Palestinian opinion, the only solution that respects their dignity and responds to their needs is a Jew-free, river-to-the-sea solution. That alone redeems their dishonor from decades of defeat at the hands of the despised Jews. The Palestinians who truly want peace with their Israeli neighbors are at risk of their lives from the Palestinian majority that is willing to sacrifice its children's future in the cause of ethnic cleansing of Jews from all of Israel. No U.S. president will have the power to refocus the Palestinians on a compelling vision of peace with Israel unless and until the Palestinian majority gives up on its dream of defeating the Jews.