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Amir Taheri looks at the implications of Israel's government change.
As far as peacemaking is concerned, the Likud-Labour coalition had reached an impasse.
Its collapse creates new opportunities. Thus it would be wrong for the Palestinians to pretend that nothing has happened. The Palestinians have a clear option. They can either decide that Israel is the enemy that ought to be fought by all means and to the bitter end. That would require a completely new strategy, one of whose aims would be to break the morale of the ordinary Israelis.
The alternative is to regard Israel as a potential partner in peacemaking, and a neighbour and future friend. That would also require a completely different strategy aimed at reassuring the ordinary Israelis and giving them the courage to contemplate a future based on the two-state formula.
The phrase "just peace" is an oxymoron. No peace in history has ever been just or can be. Those who want justice must fight to the bitter end and, then, wait for the next world. Those who want peace must compromise, including by swallowing some very bitter pills.
If the Palestinians choose a peace that is both honourable and practical, they would be in a position to offer the Israeli voter a real choice. This is why what has happened is important and what will happen in Israeli and Palestinian politics in the next few months will be even more so.
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