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Article: Justice for the Palestinians: if the Palestinians were Israel's only Arab enemies, peace might be possible. But can the Israeli-Palestinian dispute be detached from the Arab-Israeli one?
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- National Review
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- October 13, 1989
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Justice for the Palestinians
WHEN EGYPT signed a peace treaty with Israel a decade ago, she was thrown out of the Arab League (although the League's headquarters were in Cairo). But Egypt has now been accepted back into the Arab fold, and President Hosni Mubarak has just launched a new "peace" proposal. This "ten-point plan," responding to the Israeli plan to hold West Bank elections, proposes inter alia that all Palestinians, including those in East Jerusalem, be allowed to vote and run for office, that Israel allow international supervision of the process, and that the army withdraw from the "area of polling places" on election day.
There is a certain ...