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Outside the window of a Bethlehem hotel, which once possessed a panoramic view of Rachel’s tomb, graffiti is scribbled across the massive rampart near the watchtower. In the center is one citation: “Mr. President: Tear Down this Wall!” The historical irony is apparent: The reference is to Ronald Reagan’s demands that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall. The difference, however, was that the Berlin Wall was essentially built by East German authorities to keep their population in, while the Israeli government has built its wall to keep Palestinians out. But the wall has been built on portions of territory still claimed by Palestinians. (See Chapter 10.)
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Yossi Melman, “Egypt Recommends Hamas Put an End to Terror,” April 5, 2006, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/702512.html.
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Yoav Stern, “Assad: Peace Talks with Israel Could Be Completed in 6 Months,” Haaretz (The Associated Press), February 10, 2006.
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Thomas L. Friedman, “Go Slow-Mo, NATO,” New York Times, December 12, 2002; “The Hard Truth,” New York Times, April 3, 2002. I publicly proposed a NATO-Partnership for Peace approach to Middle East peacekeeping in October 2001 at the Atlantic Council conference in Slovenia.
Israeli Raid on Palestinian Prison Ignites Crisis in Occupied Territories. See interview with Naseer Aruri, “Dishonest Broker: America’s Role in Israel and Palestine,” Democracy Now, March 16, 2006, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/16/158202.
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Gardner, H. (2007). Israel and Palestinian Fratricide: Beyond the “Two State Solution”?. In: Averting Global War. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230608733_6
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