The Old Peace Is Dead, but a New Peace Is Possible

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/opinion/the-old-peace-is-dead-but-a-new-peace-is-possible.html?_r=0

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:03 AM
Subject: re: The Old Peace Is Dead, but a New Peace Is Possible
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To the Editor:

    Ari Shavit writes facilely  about the "legitimacy" of Arab governments, but nowhere defines his terms. Was Jordan's hereditary monarch "legitimate" when King Hussein made peace with Israel? Did the military coup confer "legitimacy" on Anwar Sadat, that he could make peace with Israel? 

    Israel will never have peace until she grants that Arabs can have governments which are just as legitimate as the Israelis have. And those governments will be free to be just as wise and just as stupid as Israel's, or anyone else's.

Barry Haskell Levine