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Allowing those sentiments to take root in an independent Palestine will only prolong the war between Arabs and Israelis, further imperil the existence of the Jewish homeland and create more enemies of the U.S. That is one reason the Administration is trying so hard to find a pathway to peace. Its strategy is still coming into focus. Says a senior White House aide: "We're in an atmosphere where everyone is waiting for someone else to go first." The first big breakthrough Powell needs is to convince Sharon and Arafat that they can wait no longer. --With reporting by Matt...
...Palestinians want full sovereignty over all the West Bank and Gaza Strip land they inhabited before Israel's victory in the 1967 war. It might be possible for Israel to give those lands back--as it did with Sinai in 1979--if it were not for the 163 Jewish settlements now dotting the land. Since the peace process began in 1993, the number of Jewish settlers in the territories has doubled, to 214,000. Before Sharon's latest military incursion, the Palestinians had won full control of just 18% of the West Bank, scattered in a noncontiguous patchwork...
Although Palestinians cling to the U.N.-endorsed "right of return," it's not going to happen. To let hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live inside Israel would be suicide for the Jewish state, destroying it by demographics. Yet the refugees have to find a home somewhere, or succeeding generations will never stop making war on Israel...
...mulled over a proposal that, as a practical matter, most of the refugees could go back only as far as the new Palestine. Arafat has spoken of "understanding" that any return of refugees "must be implemented in a way that takes into account" Israel's unshakable determination to remain Jewish. But Sharon's Likud Party has rejected the return of any Palestinian refugees, from anywhere. And Arafat can't guarantee those 1,235,000 camp refugees will accept that they're never going all the way home...
Both sides want the ancient city as their political and religious capital. Camp David negotiators foundered over the Muslim and Jewish holy places, which sit virtually atop one another. The Palestinians insist on sovereignty over the Haram al-Sharif, where their sacred shrines sit, and Israel cannot give up the ground underneath it, where the Western Wall and the remnants of Solomon's Temple lie. By 2001, negotiators hoped they could finesse these demands and could gerrymander the city into an Arab East Jerusalem that the Palestinians could call a capital and a Jewish West Jerusalem that the Israelis could...