(Israel Hayom) Efraim Inbar - The Palestinians leaked a letter to the media that PA President Mahmoud Abbas sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reiterating Abbas' complete opposition to recognizing "Israel as a Jewish state," declaring it a "red line" that the Palestinians would not cross. This "red line" is about the essence of the conflict. The Palestinian position amounts to denying the Jews the right to establish their state in their homeland. It also indicates that the Palestinians are not ripe for reaching a historic compromise with Zionism, the Jewish national revival movement. A stable peace based on mutual recognition is not in the cards. This is in stark contrast to Israel, which recognized the "legitimate rights of the Palestinians" back at the September 1978 Camp David Accords. The writer is professor of political studies and director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
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