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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: c.hinton who wrote (246802)10/27/2007 4:58:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Israel is now strong and rich.

Israel is the local power of the region.....for now.

Israel should use this moment in time to push for peace ........


The only way ONE strong side can try to impose a peace single-handed is by forcing the other side to take it at gunpoint. Since that is pretty much out of the question, Israel needs to find somebody to talk to. There's the rub. Nobody runs Palestine, the Arafat tradition of breaking government function into 27 overlapping entities, most of whom have plausible deniability, is alive and well. Nobody is strong enough to even promise a deal, and certainly nobody could enforce one.

If Israel agreed to everything at Taba AND dividing Jerusalem AND 200,000 returning Pal refugees a year - iow more than even the left-wing could tolerate and perhaps more than the state could survive, Abu Mazen could not afford to take even THAT deal, which would give 100% of what he CLAIMS he wants.

Why not? Because he would have to admit in public that the conflict was over even though Israel still existed and not all the refugees could flood back into their ancestral villages that no longer exist. Hamas would kill him as a traitor. And some factions of Fatah would chip in to help.
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