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From: barry levine
Date: Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:43 PM
Subject: re:
To: "letters@nytimes.com"
To the Editor:
President Obama would be wrong to "throw[n] in the towel on a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians" exactly as PM Yitzhak Rabin was wrong to link Land and Peace. "Land-for-Peace" worked between Israel and Egypt because both parties were States, each competent to enforce the terms of the agreement on its own people. To contract peace with a non-state entity would be nonsense; it cannot enforce the agreed terms.
So let president Obama recognize Palestine (and Kurdistan!) as president Truman recognized Israel. The right to self-determination belongs to Palestinians and to Kurds no less than to e.g. Jews. Only then can two States agree to a peace that mean anything, exactly because it can be enforced by each party, on its own people.
So let president Obama recognize Palestine (and Kurdistan!) as president Truman recognized Israel. The right to self-determination belongs to Palestinians and to Kurds no less than to e.g. Jews. Only then can two States agree to a peace that mean anything, exactly because it can be enforced by each party, on its own people.
Barry Haskell Levine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/opinion/how-the-us-and-israel-can-move-forward.html?_r=0
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