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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (81520)	3/12/2003 1:30:49 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<deal breaker was not land, not even Jerusalem, but 'right of return'.> I have to agree. That's a depressing conclusion, because it's not anything that can be finessed or compromised. If it were a matter of exactly where the frontier will go, that's negotiable. Give a little here, get a little there, you've got a deal. But the "right of return" will always be a deal-breaker for Israel. In retrospect, the Arab rejection of the 1947 UN Partition Plan was self-defeating. Even for Arabs who hadn't given up the goal of "pushing the Jews into the sea", they should have accepted the plan, if only as a temporary tactical move. Their inability to compromise meant they permanently lost territory, territory they will never be offered again. And I think history is going to see Taba the same way. Having rejected Taba, the best State they will be offered in the future, is a series of semi-surrounded crowded enclaves. Maybe totalling 60% of the West Bank and 90% of Gaza, and only a token piece of Jerusalem, and none of the Old City. And if they reject that, and the Intifada goes on and on (with a steady escalation in the weapons used by Hamas) at some point Israel gets unwilling to tolerate hostile populations West of the Jordan, and the Palestinians could lose any possibility of a State. And truly, the Palestinians have noone but themselves to blame. I think Sharon is a monster, but I also think the Palestinians are responsible for creating the monster that hurts them.