The Palestinians and Israelis are yet to engage in peace discussions.
On the Israeli side all negotiations have effectively been about finding a compromise between the Israeli right and the Israeli left over the extent of the sovereignty to be conceded to the various Palestinian refugee camps, villages, and cities controlled by the Israeli Army.
The US has traditionally accepted that the peace process is exclusively an Israeli issue, something to be negotiated between the right and left of Israel. In this view, Palestinians are peripheral in these negotiations and should at the very least accept in advance the Israeli left's proposals uncompromized by the views of the Israeli right.
Daily Kos is a place where a genuine Palestinian and Israeli conversation is emerging, shielded by a progressive environment. To Palestinians and their friends Daily Kos is emerging as a place to present a Palestinian view to a wide audience, to engage in conversation with progressive friends of Israel, and to hope that some of our ideas, cries, and wailings will reach people closer than us to the Obama administration.
This, however, motivates a nascent and ongoing campaign of vilification against the forum and its participants.
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