Natasha Mozgavaya, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service: Israel pledges to work with U.S. for Mideast peace
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Title:"Every opportunity for progress" will present itself when...
Name:Jehudah Ben-Israel
City: JerusalemState: Israel
...the war of attrition-by-terror against the Jewish community of the Land which commenced in 1920 will come to and end, and when Israel`s Muslim-Arab neighbors will come around and clearly and directly recognize Israel`s right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Short of the above, no Israeli Jew may lower her/his guard and take additional risks towards an accomodation of peaceful coexistence between Arab and Jew, Israel and its Muslim-Arab neighbours, one which we have been so eager to reach.

We, Jews, also have the right to exist, both as individuals and as a collective, as a people, within its own nation-state in our historic homeland of Eret Israel (Land of Israel).