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The Tribune’s editorial “What to do with Arafat?” falls into the same error as does Israel: making Yasser Arafat the major issue in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Arafat is not the basic obstacle to peace; it is Israel’s continued occupation since 1967 of Palestinian land that is the fundamental problem.
I served as American consul in Jerusalem and am convinced that if Israel were to end its occupation, Palestinian suicide bombings would also end.
The real key to peace does not lie mostly in Arafat’s hands but rather in the hands of the Israeli government.
