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hide this space  Local Fighting, Global Conflict  Of course
Palestinians have a moral right to statehood - but their wish
will not be fulfilled until we engage Israel's strategic
security concerns. The peace process in the Middle East demands
a global solution.  Whenever it had the chance, Iran supplied
extremist factions with weaponry and money to hit Israel: such
has been the case with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
If the Israeli military withdrew from the West Bank, is there
anything that would prevent Tehran from supplying rebellious
factions there as well?  The question hints at a crucial aspect
of the Middle East peace process: The recognition of full
statehood and military independence for Palestine must
necessarily go hand in hand with a new military security
concept. Without such an element, an Israeli exit from the West
Bank would not be the end of current problems but the beginning
of new and deeper ones. The question of “defen