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The Palestinians Miss Yet Another Opportunity: gatestoneinstitute.org/14344/palestin…
The history of the Palestinian leadership is a history of missed opportunities for statehood and economic viability.
Had the Palestinian leaders accepted the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947 -- two states for two peoples -- there would have been a Palestinian state side-by-side with Israel.
Had they accepted the peace plan offered by President Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 2000-2001 or the even the more generous plan offered by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in 2008, there would now be a viable Palestinian state on 95 percent of the West Bank and Gaza.
But no! Neither offer was accepted, much to the regret of many moderate Palestinians and Sunni Arabs in the region.
