Editorial
The Madrid peace conference of October 1991 did away irreversibly
with the notion of a complete and one-sided sovereignty over the
totality of Mandatory Palestine, supplanting it with the concept of
partnership between the two peoples: Palestinians and Israelis.
Thus ended a conviction that had dominated the conflict over this
land for over a century. Since then, a conflict of a different
nature has emerged, relating to the shape and size of the land to
be partitioned between the two sides, as well as to the nature of
their relationship. Such matters will certainly be settled with the
existential decisions that will be taken in the final-status
negotiations.
An independent Palestinian state is not anymore an alien concept,
rejected region ally and internationally. The right of the
Palestinian people to self¬determination over its land,
including the right to an independent state on par with other
nations, has become widely accepted. The international community
has not only recogni
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