Word: statehooder
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...neighborhood in East Jerusalem is declared the capital of Palestine; the religious sites are put under international jurisdiction. Vast majorities of Jews and Arabs support this deal. The notion that war will somehow speed along a better one assumes the Palestinians will somehow change their minds about real statehood. They won't. The only other alternative for Israel is more of the same: more violence, a collapsing economy, a larger and ever more vehement Arab population. George W. Bush should make that clear before he takes another step toward...
...benchmarks leading to a final and comprehensive settlement of the Israel-Palestinian conflict." It calls on the Palestinians to reform their institutions and end violence, and it outlines the ways Israel should soften its iron-fisted security policies. If all conditions are met, the U.S. plan envisages Palestinian statehood by 2005. The document is a good beginning, but it needs greater detail and public light; otherwise Bush's good intentions toward the Palestinians simply won't be believed...
...stability of deadlock. Mindful of the extent to which its bona fides in the Arab world are judged through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. has lately been sending State Department emissaries to the region touting what it calls a "road map" to peace and Palestinian statehood via a Palestinian crackdown on terrorism, an Israeli settlement freeze and other familiar prescriptions. Washington's proposals have been received with all due politesse, but nobody in the region is taking them seriously as any kind of guide to action in the near term. The domestic politics of both Israel...
...said he personally supports a Palestinian state but argued that, compared to other groups seeking statehood, Palestinians hold a lower “moral priority” because they rejected a U.N. proposal for dividing the Middle East after the Second World War that included the creation of a Palestinian state. Dershowitz also said Israel should not be singled out as a violator of human rights. He said Israel stands among the top ten most rights-conscious nations in the world...
...more immediate threat to regional stability. That forced the Bush Administration to rethink its Middle East policy, first sending Secretary of State Powell out to literally rescue Arafat, and two months later the President called for Arafat's removal as the precursor to a quick-time march to Palestinian statehood...