Palestinian Liberal Columnist On: The Palestinian 'All or Nothing' Policy

MEMRI has translated a very interesting article on the "all or nothing policy" as he puts it of the Palestinians. This is MEMRI'S introduction.

To mark the 106th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, the liberal Palestinian writer Tawfiq Abu Bakr published an article criticizing the years long Palestinian "all or nothing" policy. This policy, he said, had brought the Palestinians to their current situation. In the article, which appeared on September 3, 2003 in the Palestinian Authority daily Al-Ayyam, Abu Bakr argued that the Palestinian policy stands in sharp contrast to the pragmatic Zionist policy that led to the establishment of the State of Israel. According to Abu Bakr, the Palestinians should have followed the Zionist model instead of wasting time with misleading visions and should now seek a two-state solution as a prelude to one, unified, large democratic state. The following are excerpts from the article:(1)

. Go here to read the article.

Posted by Ted Belman at September 15, 2003 12:36 PM