| You write that "neither side is prepared to give up its national symbols and tell its people that the pledges of the past - "we will return to our villages in Palestine" and "united Jerusalem in Israel`s hands forever" - were just illusions." But from what your very own description, Olmert did offer to give up Israeli sovereignty in E. Jerusalem, and to create a special international arrangement for the holy basin. So wouldn`t be a more accurate characterization of the very story you told be, that *Abbas* in fact was unwilling to give up on either the Right of Return or full sovereignty over the holy places? |
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