Reality Check: Palestine Will Remain a Non-Existent State

The non-member 'state' status will sink the Palestinian leadership even deeper into an obsession with intransigence in practice and paper victories that mean nothing in the real world.

Barry Rubin

18 Kislev 5773 – December 2, 2012

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Yasser Arafat, the arch-terrorist who won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Originally published at Rubin Reports.

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Barry Rubin

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Professor Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. See the GLORIA/MERIA site at www.gloria-center.org.