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The Evenhandedness Trap


(Ynet News) Asaf Romirowsky - Prevalent among American foreign policy-makers is the view that both parties in the negotiations, Israelis and Palestinians, are equally responsible and equally to blame. This is a flawed reading of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Instead, one must start with the fact that the majority of the Arab-Muslim world has always seen the Jewish state as an abomination. Palestinian national identity is predicated on winning a zero-sum struggle with Zionism, not a vision of a state of their own. The writer is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Forum.
2014-04-25 00:00:00
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