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Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert knows that the most important political relationship of his office is the one with the occupant of the White House. That's why he agreed, this week, to indulge President Bush's insistence that Israel seek a negotiated agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before moving ahead with plans to unilaterally redraw its border. After all, Olmert had actually campaigned on the promise of acting unilaterally to finalize Israel's borders, and he has made no secret that he sees Abbas as a lame duck. The Palestinian leader is not trusted...
...Hamas 10 days to agree to join him in endorsing a two-state solution based on Israel returning to its 1967 borders - which would mean giving up the lands occupied in the war of that year, including all of the West Bank and East Jerusalem - or else face a Palestinian referendum on the issue...
...What the Palestinian showdown reveals, however, is that the obstacles to a negotiated solution are not simply the fact that Hamas now runs the Palestinian government or that armed groups have not been dismantled. While Abbas sees the basis for negotiations as the 1967 borders, Olmert's version of the border - as described by the route of the security wall he is in the process of completing - folds in the major Israeli settlement blocs on the West Bank, bissecting the territory and cutting it off from East Jerusalem. The fact that the Israeli negotiating position is so far from even...
...Bush White House, has left Israel's political scene, his legacy has not. No matter what differences they may have, Israel and the U.S. will continue to coordinate their positions on all decisions that affect one another. And that means managing the next steps in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship is a burden they'll have to share...
...route of the security wall Israel is building, is to fold in huge settlement blocs on land occupied in 1967, bisecting the West Bank and cutting it off from East Jerusalem, as well as possibly maintaining an Israeli military corridor along the Jordan Valley. Whatever their internal disagreements, Palestinian leaders would easily agree on rejecting Olmert...