US Must Break Ranks With Israel On Recognition

"Recognition" in these circumstances would require that the Palestinian people accept everything that has happened to them in the past six decades and to forego any recourse whatsoever. As couched by the Israelis and supported by the United States with the Quartet, "recognition" says that all the players accept the present situation as a legal fait accompli. But for accepting it, the Palestinians get nothing. To get "recognition", the Israelis make no promises (a) to stop their occupation of all of Palestine that is left or cease military harassment of all its people, (b) to recognize the rights of the Palestinian people in any sense, (c) to do anything to compensate the Palestinian people for six decades of Israeli induced hardship and attrition, (d) to stop creeping expansion, (e) to stop hogging the country's precious water resources, or (f) to release the 10-11,000 Palestinian prisoners the Israelis hold for the http://www.rense.com/general75/mustb.htm.