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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran

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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5256)6/21/2004 4:10:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
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Mon., June 21, 2004 Tamuz 2, 5764

Swapping the right of return for the holy sites

By Danny Rubinstein


In a few days, we will mark the four-year anniversary of the failed Camp David summit. With hindsight, we now see that the summit was the opening shot in a chain of events leading to the demise of the peace process and to the bloody conflict with the Palestinians known as the intifada.

The conflict was named the "Al-Aqsa Intifada" by the Palestinians not because it followed Ariel Sharon's ascent to the plaza adjoining the mosque of that name, but because the subjects of Jerusalem in general, and the Temple Mount in particular, were central to the deliberations at Camp David.

An article recently published by Moshe Amirav, one of the advisers to then prime minister Ehud Barak, states that without Israel completely relinquishing sovereignty over the Temple Mount, there may be no compromise between us and them. Amirav was right.

The question of whether there could be an Israeli government capable of completely relinquishing the Temple Mount is a separate issue. However, as long as Israel's government insists on any degree of control of the holy site, there will be no agreement with the Palestinians, nor with the Arab world.
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