(National-Abu Dhabi) Editorial - Mahmoud Abbas' comment that he is unlikely to ever live in Safed, his childhood home, struck many observers as the diplomatic equivalent of waving a white flag. Yet no one has offered a more appropriate label for the comment: realistic. If the Palestinians' goal is an independent state - a position they will soon be advocating again at the UN - then the only way forward will be through hard, painful compromise. Both realism and openness to calculated compromise are valuable traits, not liabilities, in political leadership.
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