The victory of the Hamas way
DANNY RUBINSTEIN
Ha'aretz, 19 April 2004
The liquidation of Abdel Aziz Rantisi put an end, in one fell swoop, to the Palestinians' feverish occupation with what they term "the Bush declaration" (likened in all publications in the territories to the Balfour Declaration). Palestinian reaction to the killing of Rantisi was, of course, consistent - condemnation and rage, and popular demand for revenge. The reactions to Bush's declaration were also almost all uniform - anger at what the Palestinians view as an Israeli-American consensus on three issues that belong to the permanent-status settlement: the borders, the settlements and the refugees.
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Published on April 19, 2004 16:49