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...find patterns of suspicious activity in data that was held in private hands. He wasn't just talking about mining through CIA reports and FBI reports and NSA reports and all the three-letter agencies. He wanted to actually go out and plug into credit-card databases and bank transaction records and the telecom networks and plane and car reservation rental records and all of this kind of stuff...
...Jerusalem, which Israel captured in 1967; many right-wing members of Netanyahu's coalition believe Israel should never give back any parts of the Holy City to the Palestinians. The hawks view Netanyahu's agreeing even to a 10-month partial moratorium on new settlement activity in the West Bank as a needless sellout to Obama, one of the least popular American Presidents in recent memory among Israelis. With an address to Washington's pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee looming, Netanyahu wasn't about to cave again...
...wait for their own state, the more likely they are to return to armed struggle, gravitate toward terrorists like Hamas, or abandon the two-state approach in favor of a unitary state - in which Arabs would eventually become the demographic majority in the land encompassing Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. That would extinguish the dream of a Jewish homeland. So what should...
...direct talks with Israel. A third option, outlined by the Israeli political analyst Ehud Yaari in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, would be an all-out push to get Israel and the Palestinian Authority to agree to the immediate establishment of an interim Palestinian state in the West Bank, where the institutions necessary for self-government are in place and working reasonably well...
...Could such an arrangement work? Among Palestinians, it would face opposition from Hamas, which runs Gaza but would be excluded from the deal; among Israelis, it would provoke conservatives who would object to the inevitable dismantling of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Many of the knottiest issues, including the status of Jerusalem, would still be unresolved. But a deal on an interim Palestinian state would provide some measure of hope and allow Obama to show he is capable of extracting concessions from both sides. At this point, the alternative is more misunderstanding, bitterness and despair - a grim legacy...