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September 30, 2011

Abbas Wants Land Without Peace

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

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Why? For exactly the same reason Abbas went to the United Nations last week: to get land without peace. Sovereignty with no reciprocal recognition of a Jewish state. Statehood without negotiations. An independent Palestine in a continued state of war with Israel.

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TAGGED: Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine, Israel

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