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...context in which Palestinian terrorism takes place—the context obscured by America’s single-minded focus on terrorism—is Israel’s 34-year military occupation of a civilian population. Since Israel’s conquest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, these territories have been under military occupation, governed by the Fourth Geneva Convention. That remains the legal status of these territories to this day. In spite of the transfer of partial control to the Palestinian Authority in the framework of the Oslo Accords, Israel remains the occupying...
...historian notes that in the Israeli Defense Force morale is fundamentally challenged by the daily moral dilemmas of policing a seething Palestinian population. Hundreds of Israeli reserve officers have responded by refusing to serve in the West Bank and Gaza - the first two such objectors were sentenced to short prison terms on Monday. The following day, the mother of a 20-year-old Israeli paratrooper killed at a base in the West Bank blamed "the occupation" for her son's death. "I have no doubt his death was unnecessary, but I am sure I will have a harder time coping...
...Creveld's solution? Get Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza, and build a wall to keep Palestinians out of Israel. That jibes with the thinking of Ariel Sharon's Labor Party coalition partners, who want to negotiate a political separation between Israel and a Palestinian state. But Sharon is caught between that option and the demands of his own political base for a military-political plan to destroy the Palestinian Authority...
...trusted to stop terror attacks, let alone conclude a peace deal with Israel - and to take down and disarm not only the various militia and terrorist cells but also the security structures of the PA itself. Once the IDF has cleared all weapons out of the West Bank and Gaza, says Netanyahu, the Israeli forces could withdraw to unspecified "defensible positions" (certainly not the 1967 borders) and wait for the emergence of a Palestinian leadership ready to do a deal with Israel...
...even a new cease-fire can buy Sharon much respite from Israel's basic dilemma over the West Bank and Gaza. If a truce is concluded, it's simply Step 1 on the path prescribed by the Mitchell and Tenet plans back to negotiating a two-state solution with Arafat. And if it fails, it simply plunges Israelis - and Palestinians - ever deeper into the horrors of a present that cannot hold...