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On a Palestinian State
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To the Editor:
Instead of attempting a learned dissertation on and critique of David Bar-Illan’s “Why a Palestinian State Is Still a Mortal Threat” [November 1993], I will, for the sake of argument, agree that everything he says is on the mark, and ask him only one thing in return: exactly what should Israel do with the West Bank and Gaza and their almost two million rebellious Palestinians? It is very easy to fault the current agreement as a blueprint for disaster, so we are open to Mr. Bar-Illan’s constructive and realistic ideas. But these would, of course, have to be approved by a viable majority of the Palestinians and their representative organization. If, for whatever reason, they do not approve, we can forget it, since it will never come to pass. The tragedy of the situation is that there are no clear-cut good choices, only bad and worse ones. I doubt that Mr. Bar-Illan is prepared to suggest the same binationalism the Israeli Left espoused for a quarter of a century and which is now considered a dirty word.
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