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A Total Misunderstanding of Symbolism

By Ariel Blumenthal

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/lostroadtopeace/item/a_misunderstanding_of_symbolism

Perhaps it’ll turn out to be a positive step on the way to peace. Who knows? There was something relatively pleasing in seeing Mahmud Abbas - a person who can’t be accused of religious zeal and insanity - on the UN podium.
But the Palestinian celebration at the UN was not a historical victory for the spirit of freedom and peace, neither was it a poetic moment of justice.

“There was no need for another devastating war” Mahmud Abbas said at the UN, relating to the last violence around Gaza. Indeed, there was no need for any of the wars in the past 65 years: In 1947 the UN accepted resolution 181, which divided the British Mandate over what’s now Israel, the West-Bank and Gaza into the 2-states everybody’s talking about. It could’ve ended there - the Zionists agreed and established Israel, but the Arabs refused to compromise, Jordan annexed the West Bank, Egypt - Gaza, and that’s where the roots of the “State that is lacking”, as Abbas put it, are laid.

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