An Alternative to Creating a Doomed-to-Fail Palestinian State
Talk to clan leaders, not Fatah officials.
February 10, 2017
Talk to clan leaders, not Fatah officials.
Recent history suggests that a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza would be as subject to internal political, sectarian, and ideological conflict as the teetering, or already collapsed, states that make up much of the Middle East. Lawrence Solomon advocates a new approach based on negotiations with Palestinian leaders who actually represent the interests of their own communities:
Talk to clan leaders, not Fatah officials.
And of the UN resolution that buttresses it.
The U.S. shouldn’t overplay its hand.
A disturbing precedent.
One of the last untouched major Judean sites.
Recent history suggests that a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza would be as subject to internal political, sectarian, and ideological conflict as the teetering, or already collapsed, states that make up much of the Middle East. Lawrence Solomon advocates a new approach based on negotiations with Palestinian leaders who actually represent the interests of their own communities:
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