Monday, October 19, 2015

: re: Mismanaging the Conflict in Jerusalem


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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:21 PM
Subject: re: Mismanaging the Conflict in Jerusalem
To: "letters@nytimes.com" <letters@nytimes.com>


To the Editor:
   For two generations, America has told Palestinians that their national aspiration to self-determination is legitimate--but peace first, then statehood. Yet when they are peaceful we ignore them--what doesn't bleed doesn't hold our attention. And when they militate, we wave a censorious finger and say "peace first".  So let's not pretend shock that "Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank will not indefinitely extend to Israel a period of calm while no corresponding reduction of the occupation takes place."
Barry Haskell Levine


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