Having effectively accepted the blame for the absence of peace, Netanyahu has been unable to wage a coherent political counteroffensive against the Palestinian political war.
The tone was set by Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat , who denounced the air raids and accused Israel of waging a war to destroy the Palestinian Authority.
The Afghan war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are also high on their list of grievances.
He is the latest of a succession of retiring generals and top security men to have urged concessions, warning that a stalemate could provoke another Palestinian intifada (uprising) or even a regional war.
First, a unilaterally declared Palestinian state will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Second, Arafat rejected the Israeli position that the immigration to Israel of Palestinian Arabs who left Israel during the 1948-49 war and their descendants would be limited to family reunification.
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That is, Obama is unwilling to commit himself to not recognizing a Palestinian state that will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
King Abdullah has linked his condemnations of the attacks with a message that any war against terrorism should be linked to renewed efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"He spoke in terms no American president has done before, " Aslan said, citing Obama's description of the invasion of Iraq as a war of choice, and the word "occupation" in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
After covering the war-torn region for years, he realized that Sesame was a great way to reach Palestinian children who desperately needed an alternative to the harsh lessons they were absorbing.
Because Yasser Arafat had presented Clinton and the world with a deadline: On Sept. 13, the Palestinians will unilaterally declare a Palestinian state, a rupture of the Oslo peace accords that they openly acknowledge may lead to violence, perhaps even war.
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