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An Israeli-Palestinian meeting of minds

Are Netanyahu and Abbas both benefiting from not going to the negotiating table?

Palestinians hold a flag in the West Bank
Photo by: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman
The issues that separate Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) is always fodder for news, but the question that is less often asked is how much overlap is between them?

If the vast range of opinion within the Israeli body politic were to be taken into account, the question would become meaningless.  Within Israel, strands of political opinion are so vast they can be compared to being well to the right of Ghengis Khan and well to the left of anything Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has yet articulated. Therefore, the only practical approach is to assume that Israel’s position is that of its current democratically elected government led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. If opinion polls have any validity, this seems likely to remain the situation after the forthcoming general election.

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