& In heresy there may be hope. Views have been voiced lately in Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that hard-liners on both sides damn as horrifying heresy. Those views have, of course, been officially repudiated. Even so, the mere fact that they could be uttered, out loud, indicates some potential cracks in official stone walls.
Heretic No. 1 is Bassam Abu Sharif, an adviser to P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. In an interview televised in Britain, Abu Sharif hinted that a Palestinian state might not have to include every last bit of the West Bank; the implication was that Israel might...
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