The Long Overdue Palestinian State

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/opinion/17abbas.html?scp=1&sq=the%20long%20overdue%20Palestinian%20State&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:22 AM
Subject: re: The Long Overdue Palestinian State
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To the Editor:

   The United Nations has met to consider the matter of a Palestinian State and voted in the affirmative. That was sixty-four years ago. Of course the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria promptly seized those lands and more. Now the U.N. proposes to revisit the issue. What has changed? The partition of 1947 conferred legitimacy on three entities. One Jewish State, one Arab State and the International Enclave of Jerusalem that would belong to neither because it belongs to the world.  Did the military seizures of 1948 change what was settled in the U. N. general council? That's not a definition of legitimacy that the U N. has ever embraced until now. The Palestinian State is long overdue; so is the International Enclave.

Barry Haskell Levine