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The exchanged messages between Israel and Iran, especially over recent weeks, leave no room for reasonable doubt regarding the intentions of both sides. By the intentions of both sides, I am referring first to their intentions regarding the Palestinian cause and secondly to the regional map of bilateral relations between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
There is a myth called "absolute security;" it is a myth because it was not possible in the past and will not be possible in the future. However, we know that, despite this, many myths in history became ideas and intellectual systems that govern nations and peoples, or inspired the establishment of political parties and movements. "Absolute security" or "maximum security" entails "zero risk," although risk is inherent to every major, or even minor, step in the course of communities and to all individual endeavors.
Reading the extensive interview (published in three episodes by this newspaper) that my colleague Ghassan Charbel conducted with Yasser Abed Rabbo, the former Secretary-General of the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), is the sort of exercise that could make a child’s head turn gray.