They feel that they played a major role in his narrow victory over Shimon Peres. And now their leader has betrayed them in the most fundamental way. But the average Israeli is a combination realist and pragmatist, informed by a small sense of ideology. To live in peace and to live in prosperity. Extremists have ideologies.
Practical people make mutually beneficial deals.
There are two inevitable options before us. Either the peace process will continue, or it won1t. If it continues, the process will move along slowly and surely with mutual benefit and exchange as clearly delineated in the memorandum. All Rights Reserved. Micah D. Halpern is the director of the Jerusalem Center for European Study.