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In its efforts to help bring stability to the Middle East, the U.S. must find a solution to the Palestinian issue on terms acceptable not merely to Israel but to the bulk of the Arab world as well. Israel's security can be maintained without thwarting the Palestinian drive for self-determination. The Israelis tend to equate this drive with "terrorism." But terrorism is only the ugly and dangerous symptom of the underlying issue of Palestinian autonomy that the West has faced up to only rarely in the past 34 years.