New poll. 66 percent of Palestinians favor the Arab peace proposal, calling for a withdrawal to the 1967 border. But only 36 percent of Israelis support it. And only 40 percent of Israelis are for dividing Jerusalem. Even fewer Palestinians: 36 percent.
Deep intransigence. Writes Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Christian Palestinian-American in Bethlehem for Christmas:
Israel's desire to acquire maximum geography with minimum Palestinian
demography is the root of the suffering afflicting the Holy Land….
[H]istory is not static as is amply illustrated by many historical
examples, including the rise and fall of the Bush dynasty. Here in
Bethlehem, we derive strength from knowing that the foreign military
occupation that existed at Jesusâs time has ended.
