Letter to The Washington Post

To: letters@washpost.com
Subject: Turk Al-Faisal "Peace for the Mideast" - Dec. 26, 2008
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:19:33 +0000

Dear Editor,

Turk Al-Faisal, in "Peace for the Mideast", Dec. 26, 2008, states that for the Palestinians, Israel's founding is "the day the dream of an independent, Arab-Palestinian state was shattered." I am not sure how The Washington Post, even in an editorial, could allow such outrageous fiction to occur in their newspaper. The Palestinians were offered a state in the UN Partition agreement of 1947, which would not have been impeded by Israel’s founding. However, the Palestinians chose to go for it all - in an attempt to destroy the Jewish state - and lost. The Palestinians, ultimately, have shattered their own dreams. They have been offered a state many times since then but refused to accept it unless it was on their terms. Until they stop blaming the side that they tried to exterminate, and look inward and accept that no one, especially the losers of wars, gets everything they want in negotiations; their future goal of a state will continue to be a dream.