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...Golan Heights or the Jordan Valley or removing the Israeli settlements dotted throughout the West Bank and Gaza deprives Israel of the "strategic depth" to defend herself, Sharon insists. Returning those lands to Arab control - as his predecessors had considered - is not an option for Sharon, and Ehud Barak, he says, had no right to even discuss sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians...
...other words, the kind of comprehensive peace Rabin and Barak had sought is off the agenda, for at least another generation. In the meantime, Sharon says, Israel will continue to live, as it always has, with a sword in one hand, hammering out clear-eyed interim agreements where possible along the way, while rekindling Zionist education of Israel's youth and attracting another 1 million Jewish immigrants to bolster its defenses...
...sustainable or prudent, Sharon's vision of a violent equilibrium certainly makes sense of Israel's military strategy of escalating attacks on the Palestinians and the Syrians in order to force them to rein in militants operating from areas under their control. After all, unlike Barak, he's not looking at the Syrians or the Palestinians first and foremost as negotiating partners right...
Mainstream media sources in the U.S. described the dynamic of Camp David II as a frustrating time for Bill Clinton and especially Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who made “wide-ranging concessions” only to see the “intransigent” Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat decline a deal at the eleventh hour (because, by most accounts, Palestinians would receive only limited sovereignty over East Jerusalem). Undeniably, East Jerusalem carries great religious and symbolic significance to both sides. But Barak’s “concessions” only meant inching closer to Israel?...
...violent clashes are actually escalating despite the Israelis' new hard line. The Palestinian Authority (PA) may be open to a cease-fire, but they'll need to extract a political price for it. In Athens, the PA reiterated its demand that talks resume where they left off with Ehud Barak, but that's a scenario Sharon has ruled out. The Israeli leader wants to restore calm and security, but he has no interest in putting the Oslo peace process back together...