Your April 6 editorial "The Semantics of Mideast Peace" stated that the Palestinians "crave and deserve" a "viable state." If they really "crave" a state, why didn't they accept the offer of Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, to Yasir Arafat six years ago to establish one on 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza? And why did they vote to be led by the terrorist group Hamas, whose call for Israel's destruction and the killing of Jews by "armed resistance" make Palestinian statehood less likely and more dangerous to a stable Middle East? Palestinian polls also show substantial support for suicide bombings and the return to Israel of the so-called refugees and their children and grandchildren, which would end Israel as a Jewish state. Does support of such policies and leaders make them deserving of a state? Hardly.I would have added, as I have on these blogpages, that Israel and the pre-state Zionist Organization had consistently adopted a yielding policy on territory which has never satisfied the Arabs. I would not hesitate to suggest that they really don't want a state - just that we shouldn't have one. That is the essence of "Palestinianism" - the negating of Zionism and the Jewish national concern.
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