Hussam Khader represents a broad current of the Palestinian public that is willing to accept the two state solution within the 1967 borders, which is not the same solution Israel is trying to engineer.
Nothing is more deadly for the prospects of peace than the current situation: a cease-fire, but no lifting of the roadblocks which is a precondition for reviving the Palestinian economy. Israel announces the building of yet more housing units in the Occupied Territories. It cannot get its act together to pass a law, that will help to get the colonists out of the Occupied Territories, but it is able to pass a law that will put more restrictions on the relatively independent Supreme Court.
On the Palestinian side the situation is also bleak; the fracturing of a unified Palestinian resistance has damaged the cause of Palestine. The biggest challenge the Palestinians face is how to restore national unity and cohesion and develop new, imaginative ideas of resisting the occupation. |
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