Article: Letters

The price of peace

Sir: Brian Hanrahan's argument about Palestinian terrorism and the peace process could be described as `bombed if you do, bombed if you don't' (`The inevitable explosion', 9 August).

Criticism of Mr Netanyahu's tough approach to security issues would be more convincing if an emollient policy had not already been tried by Mr Netanyahu's predecessors. Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were rather nice to Mr Arafat. They rescued him from political oblivion, made him their `partner for peace', treated him with solemn respect, glossed over his manifest shortcomings, trudged the world raising funds for his Palestinian Authority and handed him power, territory, constituents and a ...

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