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From: steinber@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Louis Steinberg)
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Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
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> 	Amr El Abbadi: 
> [Sloganizing] draws
> people away from the real issues, that is the Palestinians' right
> to exist, right for self-determination, right to choose their own
> representatives, etc.
> When is Israel gonna acknowledge these rights?

1) Actually, Israel DID acknowledge these rights by accepting the UN
partition resolution which created, on paper, both Israel and an Arab
Palestinian state, both on the west side of the Jordan.  It was the
Arab side which did not acknowledge these rights, especially Jordan
which invaded and took over the Arab areas (not that any West Bank
Arabs actually seemed interested in establishing their own state at
that point).

2) Israel will probably again acknowledge the Palestinians' rights
once the Arabs stop claiming that one of these rights, indeed the one
they must exercise before they can truly have the others, is the right
to destroy Israel.

(See the excerpts from the Palestine National Covenant, essentially
the PLO constitution, which were recently posted.)