Key to a Wider Peace

The Palestinian demand for self-determination is gaining acceptance

The military commander of the area around Tyre, Major Azmi Zughayar, strode to the top of a sand dune in southern Lebanon. There, above the bamboo and sea grass, he pointed with his walking stick across a sliver of eastern Mediterranean to the shore line of Israel beyond. "That is my country," he told a visitor. "How can I forget? How can any of us forget?"

Their popular image in the West is that of a throng of terrorists and refugees. Some of them indeed are...

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