Al Ahram Weekly (Egypte) : "Accepting a Palestinian state" par James Zogby

23 - 29 July 2009 Issue No. 957 Opinion

Accepting a Palestinian state

With even Israel's hawkish prime minister speaking of Palestinian statehood, is there any excuse for withholding it longer, asks James Zogby

With Binyamin Netanyahu agreeing to a Palestinian state (albeit one that meets his specifications), and the European Union's Javier Solana calling for a UN Security Council resolution to recognise a Palestinian state by a date certain, the idea has now become commonplace. Even in the US, it is a near "article of faith" to project a two-state solution as the only acceptable outcome to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. But because this has not always been the case, it is useful to trace the evolution of this acceptance in our political discourse -- recalling, as we do, how difficult it was just a few decades ago to support Palestinian rights.

In the late 1970s I founded the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. We were a coalition that included Arab Americans, African American civil rights leaders, representatives of......................
...........................



http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/957/op3.htm


Les articles publiés ne reflètent pas obligatoirement les opinions du CJPP5, qui dénie toute responsabilité dans leurs contenus, lesquels n'engagent que leurs auteurs ou leurs traducteurs. Nous sommes attentifs à toute proposition d'ajouts ou de corrections.
Le contenu de ce site peut être librement diffusé aux seules conditions suivantes, impératives : mentionner clairement l'origine des articles, le nom du site, ainsi que celui des traducteurs.