ABSTRACT
Wars, in general, do not prove who or what is right, they only prove who and what is left. Israel was attacked, with a design to liquidate her in a war of annihilation waged by all Arabs combined. What is left is a united Jerusalem, where the capital of the Jewish state has been given a full opportunity to develop for the benefit of all its population, under far better conditions than the curtailed and menaced previous boundaries could afford it. One of the major obstacles to any permanent treaty between Israel and the Palestinians would be that, exactly as they wish their country to be recognized as Palestinian and Arab, so does Israel wish its part of the deal be recognized as an Israeli and Jewish state. The Oslo Accords of 1993 have relegated the issue of Jerusalem—along with other difficult aspects of the conflict as the Jewish nature of Israel—to the final phase of the Oslo Process.
