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| | Mon, 15 Jul 1996: Op-Ed: Has "Land for Peace" Worked? |
 | | First, the phrase is intuitively irritating, because of an asymmetry: Land is tangible and very hard to regain once given away; peace is an airy entity, which, once given, can always be taken back. |
 | | In other words, Israel has peaceful relations with Jordan, to which it has given no land; a troubled nonbelligerency with Egypt, to which it has given a lot of land; and ongoing conflict with the Palestinians, to whom it has also given land. |
 | | Yet surely one expects more from a "process." Even as the dovish Rabin-Peres government was handing over land at a rapid pace, the terror organizations became entrenched in that land, perpetrated slaughter in Israel's streets and were, on account of it, regarded as heroes and saints by Palestinians. |
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