Re: Polls, Palestinians and the Path to Peace (short article)
I don't think your parallel examples are fitting; neither the citizens nor the government of the USA refused to recognize the USSR's right to exist.
The PLO and the PA say one thing, but actions say another--Arafat appears to support terror even while denouncing it. And it should be obvious that the PA can't/won't provide the security guarantees it pledged to Israel.
Most germane to the article is this: The issue of whether Palestinians would be willing to accept a small state living in peace alongside Israel, or whether the the Palestinians would still violently push for the elimination of Israel and return of a Greater Palestine, is a crucial point, and one with massive implications regarding any hopes of lasting peace.
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