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Five years ago (Worldview, "The Middle East Conflict: A Christian Perspective," July-August, 1969) I laid out what seemed to be the absolutely essential components for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. These included the continued existence of Israel as a free and independent state within relatively secure and defensible boundaries, the expression of Palestinian nationalism within some form of national entity, and the development of a scheme for joint Arab-Israeli sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem. In the light of conversations with Israelis and Arabs over the last two years, some modifications are in order.

The author attempts to highlight some fundamental questions regarding India's policy towards the Palestinian question and to provide an analysis of the "realpolitik" pursued by India's leaders and policy-makers; impact of the Arab oil and Islamic resurgence on India's Arab and Palestinian policy in the post-1973 era; India's conspicuously pro-Arab and pro-PLO position in support of the Palestinian cause

Liberal Zionists blame Israel's five decade long occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip primarily on Revisionist Zionist ideology and its manifestation in right wing parties such as the Likud. They also argue that the "Two State Solution", the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, will forever solve this issue. This paper on the other hand argues that while the Israeli left have divergent opinions from the revisionists on many issues, with regards to the "Palestinian question" and particularly on the prospects of allowing the formation of a Palestinian state, liberal Zionists have much closer views to the right wing than would most like to admit. To demonstrate this, the views of Theodore Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, David Ben-Gurion, the most important actor in the founding years of the state, as well as the approach of left wing Israeli political parties are examined. Finally, it is argued that none of the mainstream Zionist political movements will allow the creation of a Palestinian state even on a small part of Palestine.

Der Autor konstatiert eine zunehmende Radikalisierung in der israelisch-jüdischen Gesellschaft und hält die gegenwärtige Regierung für unfähig, das Palästinaproblem und die Westbankfrage zu lösen. Eine mögliche Alternative sieht er in der Bildung einer neuen Regierungskoalition, die von der Labor Party, den Linksparteien und liberalen Teilen der Likud-Partei gestellt werden müßte