Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent: Renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish to attend recital in Israel
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Title:Reality Check -- It`s not words that are the problem
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If the Palestinians used only words to put form to their woes, there`d have been a Palestine decades ago.

Words do not maim and kill. Words do do not create orphans, widows, or widowers. It`s not words that have created such a level of distrust between Israelis and Palestinians that a two state solution seems as unlikely as it ever has.

I`m much more concerned about actions; violent actions in the form of bombs and shootings. It is poorly conceived actions that have doomed Palestinian society; actions that, likewise, threaten to take down Israeli society with it.

Concern about Poets is misdirected concern indeed.