'Violent resistance has failed Palestinians'
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'Violence has failed Palestinians'
John Aziz in Foreign Policy
"The path to Palestinian statehood has been crushed beneath an avalanche of bombs, bullets, smoke, and fire," says John Aziz. The "slaughter of civilians" — in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack and "the subsequent war" with Israel in Gaza — has obliterated "what little hard-earned trust there was between Israelis and Palestinians." Violence "has failed Palestinians — and empowered extremists in Israel." Hardliners on both sides reject a two-state solution, but nobody has "the right to extinguish their neighbor's self-governance."
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