A tragic haunted sense of deja vu surrounds the negotiations at Annapolis between Israelis and Palestinians.  Today is Partition Day; sixty years ago, on the Gregorian Calendar, on November 29, 1947 the UN agreed to partitioning the land into two states: Israel and Palestine.  Israel accepted, the Arabs did not.A few days later Elias (Eliyahu) Sasson, a Senior Israeli Diplomat,  sent a letter to Azzam Pasha, general Secretary of the Arab League further explaining Israel's cause while offering peace and friendship.  Sixty years have passed; this letter could have been written today, little has changed.  Sasson wroteYou have in this generation achieved freedom and independence, but a great many of you are not ready equally to concede to others the right to live and to be free. Yet the same forces and the same necessities as gave you your freedom are also behind our effort to secure our freedom. And in preparing yourselves to thwart our effort of...(Read Full Post)