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Defenders of Israel right or wrong continue to assert that the absence of peace is all the fault of the Palestinians.

(LONDON) - In one sense they are right. When the
Palestine file was closed by Israel’s victory (ethnic cleansing and all)
on the battlefield in 1948, the Palestinians were supposed to accept
their lot as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of political expediency.
That was according to the script written by Zionism and effectively
endorsed by all the major powers and, behind closed doors, the regimes
of a divided and impotent Arab order. Nobody in power anywhere wanted
the Palestine file to be re-opened because, if it was, a confrontation
with Zionism in all of its awesome manifestations would one day be
inevitable. So it could be said if the Palestinians had been prepared to
be the sacrificial lamb, the first Arab-Israeli war would also have
been the last.

By such cruel and mad logic the Palestinians are to blame for the sustaining and escalation of the conflict.

But let’s now leave fantasy land and acknowledge that
the hallmark of Zionism in action is saying one thing to the world and
doing the opposite.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that Israel
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