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Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state

A recent letter to the editor of The Economist; posted here in the event they don't publish it. Enjoy!

SIR - In your article, "Grappling with America" you venture to decipher "code" in the four "copious" conditions of Mr. Netanyahu's June 14th speech. It is unfortunate that you only managed to decipher negative implications for Palestinians, rather than positive steps for the road to peace. Recognizing Israel as the state of the Jewish people isn't just a condition of Mr. Netanyahu's, it is an intrinsic element of Phase I of the Roadmap requiring an end to incitement. The Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a state for the Jews is a central tenet of denying the right of the other to exist. No one including Israel questions the fact that Palestine is a state of the Palestinian people. If the goal is peaceful coexistence, insisting on reciprocal acknowledgement is a reasonable requirement.

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