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To: michael97123 who wrote (37354)4/1/2004 7:17:18 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 793953
 

perhaps the road map can be revived and a settlement much like the Clinton/Barak/almost Arafat borders can be used for the model of land for peace?

I'm not optimistic. I never thought the "road map" led anywhere.

The only way "land for peace" could be made to mean anything would be through the creation of a geographically contiguous Palestinian state. The Bantustan solution will never work. Given the duration of the conflict and the depth of hostility, I think you'd have to move the Palestinians in the Israeli half out, and the same to the Israelis in the Palestinian half. I also think you'd need a complete physical separation between the two.

Of course the Palestinian state would be on the dole for decades (Israel has already been on the dole for decades, of course), but it would be worth it. That mess is costing us plenty already.

Of course the Israelis would never accept something like that. The US could force them to accept it, but that would require leadership with balls, which we don't have and aren't likely to get.
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