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Saturday, September 29, 2012

A timely reminder from Egypt’s president By Rami G. Khouri

The Daily Star

A timely reminder from Egypt’s president
Try as they might, American and Israeli politicians and their herds of followers and lobbyists in the United States cannot seem to shake off the Palestine issue or the Arab-Israeli conflict. It seems that the Palestine issue, the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, simply will not go away, as we are reminded again this week when world leaders gather in New York for the start of this year’s United Nations General Assembly session.In the span of the last few days, we’ve heard Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speak wildly about how the Palestinians, in his bizarre view, do not want to make peace and want to destroy Israel. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has spoken wildly about how Israelis have no links to the Middle East and will be eliminated – apparently oblivious to the fact that all the Arab countries have a standing offer on the table to live in peace with Israel if it recognizes the national rights of the Palestinians.

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