Bradley Burston, Haaretz.com: I want the Palestinians to win

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4-15-2008 4:57 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ce449425-af5b-431e-bad7-6f5795c25378/F8487926-10DB-40A4-B2E5-AFAB2E4850C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972529.html" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972529.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.haaretz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972529.html"><DIV>I'm a fairly patriotic sort, as these things go. A California native, I truly love the nation, and especially the state, of my birth. I love this, my adopted homeland, no less. I deeply want Israel to be a success. And that is why I wanted the Palestinians to win.
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<BR /><DIV>Not win as in "throw the Jews in the sea." Not win as in "set the ground ablaze under the Jews' feet."
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<BR /><DIV>Win as in "gain what the Jews have gained - independence, statehood, responsibility over their own fate, and a sense of proportion over what is attainable in a world and a region of limited resources and manifold hopes."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972529.html"><DIV>It is in the direct interest of hardliners to do everything in their power to convince their side that this is a zero-sum game, that only one side can emerge triumphant.
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<BR /><DIV>In fact, though, there are two additional options, the first, of course, being that both sides can lose. The second, the one of which we've largely lost sight, is that with an element of compassion, both sides can win.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F8487926-10DB-40A4-B2E5-AFAB2E4850C0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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Johanna_G says:

"I and the majority of the Palestinian people are ready for a historic agreement based on international decisions that will allow a Palestinian and Israeli state to coexist, side by side, in peace and stability."

Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti

Source: Ha'aretz, 08 April 2008

Bradley Burston is Senior Editor of Haaretz.com, the Israeli newspaper's online English language edition.
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See also Kore7's clip Bradley Burston: Ten Ways to Make Sure That Peace Stays Dead.

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4-16-2008 1:44 PM

abailart

Um. This the same Bradley Burston accused on CM comments last week of dishonesty using the charge of antisemitism
as a way of deflecting critics of Israel?

4-16-2008 6:41 PM

Johanna_G

Er... Some CM comments are really worth reading. In case you think the comments mentioned by you should be reckoned among the readable ones, would you please be so kind as to specify your allusion?

In search of comments touching Bradley Burston, I couldn't find any such accusation against him.

However, you know? The clipped article speaks for itself. Being accustomed to pore over original wordings and to take the originators at their word, I am pinched for time of attending to any commentators' misconceiving or even cattish chitchat.

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