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Article: To halt Mideast tremors, heal the fault line; The Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be resolved before we can expect peace in Lebanon and elsewhere.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 6, 2006
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Byline: John K. Cooley
ATHENS -- At a Washington breakfast meeting 30 years ago, I asked Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, "After your success in getting Israeli and Arab forces on both Egyptian and Syrian fronts [in the 1973 war] to put down their guns and disengage, why isn't more being done to resolve the main Israeli-Palestinian conflict?"
Mr. Kissinger replied that in tough negotiations, easier issues get tackled first; the tough ones last. That approach may have helped Israel broker peace deals with Egypt in 1979, and with Jordan in 1994. But failure to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has meant keeping intact the chief catalyst for ...