It has been an American mantra throughout the many years of the peace process that both sides must take "risks for peace". Those risks have taken different forms over time, but the most compelling risk for both Israelis and Palestinians has been a domestic political one: so long as the prospect of peace has remained a hazy dream, no one could object to it compellingly; but just begin to seriously consider the hard compromises necessarily involved, and it becomes clear to important constituencies on both sides that they will lose. To accept and politically manage those realities: that is the essence of "risks for peace".
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