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Let’s Stop Pretending Palestinians Want Peace
by Jonathan Greenberg
November 9, 2015

Last week, Israelis commemorated the 20^th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. To most westerners, the prevailing wisdom is that Mr. Rabin’s murder by a Jewish extremist ruined the prospects for the Oslo Accords to work. This belief is widely held regardless of how many Israelis and others in a position to know better shovel dirt on the theory. Despite all the evidence that Oslo has been a total failure and, for Israel, a strategic disaster of the first order, there was Bill Clinton at a rally in Tel Aviv last week (the accompanying rally in Ramallah must have been cancelled?) urging Israelis to pretend that the last 20 years of terror and intransigence hadn’t happened…Not to be outdone, President Obama appeared at the rally by video. The attendees at the rally likely included all seven residents of the Middle East who still take anything he says seriously. READ MORE