Saturday, November 7, 2015

how-the-us-and-israel-can-move-forwar


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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.
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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