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Article: Likud's Uphill Path
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- The Washington Post
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- July 5, 1996
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer {op-ed, June 28} advises that
the new word on Arab-Is\raeli negotiations is reciprocity, as though
the Israelis who supported Labor's defeated Shimon Peres had weakly
settled for less. What he means, of course, is that the Israelis
gave land but haven't gotten the peace that was supposed to match.
But it is a myth that there was no reciprocity or payoff. The
Rabin-Peres team, building on Likud's successes with Egypt, produced
its own successes. As Israeli eminence Abba Eban fairly says:
Labor's engagement with the Palestinians breached a wall of Arab and
Muslim hostility and made Israel, theretofore one of the most
isolated nations in the world, one of ...