To the editor:
Your recent editorial, "Israeli-Palestinian Collision Course," avers that "Fatah has renounced violence." If so, Fatah has done it in a very strange way, since at least one of its arms, the infamous "Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade," continues to engage in terrorism whenever Israel lets its guard down and its charter continues to state "armed struggle is a strategy and not a tactic."
The Times is correct that the Palestinian Arabs must be united if there is ever to be a peace agreement with Israel. Also necessary for an effective peace agreement: they must willing to abandon their dream of destroying the world's only Jewish state. Thus far, even the so-called "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas falls way short, having repeatedly rejected the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state and refusing to even make the costless acknowledgment of Israel's existence as the Jewish state.
Sincerely,
Alan Stein