Haaretz
by
Lara Friedman, Hagit Ofran
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Mar. 4, 2009
(Opinion)
If President Barack Obama is serious about making progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace and about setting America's relationship with the Arab and Muslim worlds on a new and better course, he cannot allow settlements to hijack the agenda.
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It is like a voice (or two) crying in the wilderness, "Make zero tolerance the basis of your Middle East policy". I comes loud and clear from the tiny crevice between those who claim "This land is my land.' and those who claim, "This land is my land". It is a plea arising from the horrendous putrid rash that continues to develop and worsen in the lands so many refer to as "holy". This has been going on during my whole lifetime, and has forced me to abandon any sense of faith, while it has eroded whatever hope I started life with. The hope I have left is in tune with the "still, small voice" that Elijiah heard on the mountain. " Insist upon zero tolerance of new Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories", it seems to say..
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Ottoman empire be damned.