Hussein Ibish: Sorry, but Palestinians won’t be bribed

"Sherman claims that Palestinian refugees “are denied citizenship of the countries in which they have lived for decades.” This is often the case, but the greatest offender is Israel. The largest group of refugees includes the stateless people living under the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Worse still, Israel has made all the Palestinians of the occupied territories, not just refugees, stateless by simultaneously denying them citizenship and independence..."

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Sorry, but Palestinians won’t be bribed

Hussein Ibish, December 27, 2011

"...It is not only reasonable for everyone to be frustrated at the lack of progress in the moribund “peace process,” it is unreasonable for anyone not to be. But to allow such frustrations to degenerate into childish daydreams that essentially outline the political elimination of the national rival, or delusional fantasies this can be achieved by financial pressures, is the height of irresponsibility.

Ultimately, the only plausible alternative to conflict remains two states, no matter how unattainable irresponsible policies and rhetoric have made that only truly workable solution seem." Hussein Ibish

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