Palestinian Demands in Peace Talks

I’m sorry, but I’m having a hard time understanding what the otherwise laudable editorial means when it states “the key problem” in current Mideast talks “lies with the Palestinians,” and scores the Palestinians for their “internal disputes and unreasonable demands.”

Not only are they a “problem” (where have we heard that before?), but the short paragraph veritably gushes with hindering qualifiers that would push further and further into the future any Palestinian hopes for freedom.

As for “internal disputes” Israel has them too, as did colonial America and as do South African blacks. As for “unreasonable demands” Palestinians only ask according to numerous resolutions of the United Nations, major church, religious and human rights organizations. They seek and deserve freedom, and not an iron or gilded cage. They seek self-determination, and not occupation or some amorphous and colonialistic “autonomy” or “self-rule.”

Could it be that the “problem” hindering peace lies elsewhere?

DARREL MEYERS

Van Nuys