Re: Polls, Palestinians and the Path to Peace (short article)
An obstacle, but not an insurmountable obstacle. I'm sure polls taken on the eve of the Camp David accords would not have shown great love between Egyptians and Israelis. Yet peace was achieved. The job of statesmen should be to overcome the rejectionist sentiments on both sides. To say that what Israel does is irrelevant is to relieve one side of any responsibility. It inevitably leads to the conclusions Pipes listed, and those will lead to 55 more years of bloodshed.
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