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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (2114)	7/2/2001 10:38:13 PM
From: ajs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

All along I argued that one makes peace with the enemy, but only if the enemy is willing to make peace as well... Left-Wing Editor: Palestinians Deceived Me Israel's newspapers and magazines have found a new craze: Interviewing top leftists who have gone right. One of the latest and most prominent examples is an interview in last week's Maariv with Chaim Shur, former editor of the Socialist daily Al HaMishmar who says that he is probably on the list of the ten Israelis who met most frequently with Palestinians before it became legal to do so. Shur told Maariv, "The Palestinians deceived both me personally and the entire Israeli Left. They lied to us, they scammed us, maneuvered and manipulated us... My respect for Yossi Beilin goes way down when he says that he has reached a mutually accepted formula on the refugee issue, because if he still does not understand what is going on here then he is not really a man of the Left. A genuine man of the Left is a man who should accept the reality for what it is, and not see it the way he wishes to. The Palestinians are not yet ripe for peace, and my duty as a man of the Left is to realize this truth. The Left is not a synonym for deceit... [They deceived me in that] during all of my meetings with them, the Palestinians said that we will find a mutually accepted formula regarding the right of return - but in fact this never happened. They didn't mean it. Everything they said was just a part of the 'plan of stages.' I was one of those who opened the American doors for the PLO... Their success [with Jewish Americans] was due to our help. Without out our assistance they would never have succeeded... Then, 2-3 years later, Nabil Sha'ath tells his public in Gaza that this whole thing was just a tactical move, and that the Palestinian plan is to make piecemeal gains for the ultimate goal of conquering the entire State of Israel. This was the same Nabil Sha'ath who was my best friend in America, who hugged and kissed me following a pro-peace speech that I gave. All his speeches were worthless. He meant nothing he said. "...It enrages me when I see my friends from the [Labor] party, including the young generation, going to Gaza to greet Yasser Arafat. After all, he is an arch-liar, an arch-murderer. All along I argued that one makes peace with the enemy, but only if the enemy is willing to make peace as well..." Question: "The Israeli Right is blaming the Left for misleading the nation, for orchestrating some kind of a messianic peace movement. Do you accept the charges?" Shur: "To a certain degree, yes. We wished for peace so much that we ended up [confusing] our wishes [for] factual reality. But there will not be peace, not next year and not five years from now... " [Ed. note: Shur went on to explain that he is still against the settlements, but is pained by the terrorism against them.] israelnationalnews.com