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...ludicrous to imagine that Israelis and Palestinians were peacefully getting on with their lives until Bill Clinton got them all fired up with ideas about sharing Jerusalem. Before Oslo, Palestinians had spent five-years in a state of violent rebellion against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Oslo ended that revolt only because it offered Palestinians a peaceful means of getting rid of the occupation and achieving statehood in exchange for guaranteeing Israel's security...
...There was something inevitable about the collapse of Oslo sparking a resumption of hostilities. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are unlikely to ever accept living peacefully under occupation. That's why peace plans from Oslo to the current Saudi proposal start with the premise that an end to hostilities requires negotiating the terms of Israeli withdrawal from all or most of the territories seized...
...prerequisite for beginning negotiations. Because Israel will never accept both full refugee right of return and a contiguous Palestinian state, flexibility on the refugee issue is vital to reaching a compromise solution. But the idea that Israel should recognize a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with minor border adjustments is a solid basis on which to build a more comprehensive peace. In the end, agreements involving refugees, control of Jerusalem and security guarantees should closely resemble those offered in Taba in January 2001, the last concerted effort toward brokering peace...
...military victory before any sort of political process. Cabinet hawks demand that the military's full might be unleashed on the Palestinian territories. Doves insist that the only way to restore Israel's security is to seek a peace agreement that largely extricates it from the West Bank and Gaza. But Sharon finds himself in the bloody limbo between full-scale war and renewed negotiations, watching his domestic political support plummet as he orders up new military actions that have consistently failed to restore calm...
Abdullah's plan, first reported in the New York Times, anticipates Arab nations' granting Israel a full peace and normalization of relations in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, Gaza and other territories seized in the 1967 war. Given Saudi Arabia's weight in the Arab world, because of its oil wealth and stewardship of the two holy cities, the promise to Israel of an eventual "warm peace" is potentially significant. In an interview with TIME, Abdullah went out of his way to acknowledge that Israelis as well as Palestinians have suffered. "On one side," he said...