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Beilin and Rabbo’s bold initiative will not itself bring peace, a bleak history suggests, but can advance the cause—as long as the U.S. wrests the accord??s future from Sharon and Arafat. As soon as he knew of the accord??s success, Sharon dismissed it as subversive and treasonous, because it skirted his government, courted Arafat’s approval and boosted the political stature of opponents like Beilin, intent on Israeli regime change. Arafat, meanwhile, has qualified his private support with public vacillation, at once praising the plan...
...acknowledging the accord??s overall fairness and the inevitability of tough compromises like those it details, Bush could restart the peace process and restore his credibility as an honest broker, lost as it was with his reluctance to enforce the Roadmap. Israeli and Palestinian moderates might agitate for a cease-fire and a settlement freeze—required in the Roadmap’s first phrase—if Bush offers them details about the kind of two-state solution they stand to lose. Like Oslo before it, the Roadmap failed in part because it left the questions...
...best way to prevent a megalomaniac from continuing to produce deadly weapons with our proverbial name on them—it does not take much thinking to realize that a forced defection is hardly a defection at all. Expecting those who have not left Hussein of their own accord??whose own shifted sympathies or self-interest play no part in coming here—to give us helpful information is something like writing “spaceship” on an Oldsmobile and waiting for lift...
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