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 | | Palestinian and Israeli hopes in the peace process continue to diminish as leaders threaten one another and tensions continue to brew on the ground because of such occurrences as the demolition of homes, closure policies, and an increasingly authoritarian PA led by Yassir Arafat. |
 | | If, however, the peace process remains on the same familiar tract whereby Palestinians negotiate away their aspirations for security, positive perceptions of the peace process will diminish to be replaced by preparations for resuming an armed struggle as before the peace process. |
 | | For Israelis, militarism is a way of maintaining the perceived status quo Zionist nature of Israel, as a nation-state composed exclusively of Jews, which of course flies in the face of Palestinian aspirations for political and economic entitlements similar to those that Jews possess. |
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