Re: Polls, Palestinians and the Path to Peace (short article)
While Palestinian popular oponion may or may not hope for the destruction of Israel, ultimately it's irrelevant as that's not going to happen, tehy know it, and they'd have to settle for a state. On the other hand, Sharon and co will never ever give the Palestinians a viable state, the which will mean the violence will never stop. You say that the violence would continue even if they did have a state; you can't know that. The IRA's goal was and is a united Ireland but they declared a ceasefire as soon as genuine talks without conditions were started.
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