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...Right. No, no, I'm just - but there are a series of these things. So then the President nonetheless says there will be a Palestinian state and it'll be called Palestine, which by the way solves one of the so-called final status issues by fiat. You know, just solves...
...approach in Washington in early December, and since then they have had frequent phone conversations. Their strategy is to put aside the step-by-step road map, which requires that the Palestinians dismantle their terrorist infrastructure before any new phase of negotiations begins, and instead leap right to final-status talks with moderate Palestinians about what a two-state solution would look like. If a suitable framework for a Palestinian state is reached, Abbas would then go to his people with a referendum: Do you want it or not? He is convinced that more than 70% would vote yes, thus...
...Search for common ground. Both parties believe that Bush will finally get through Congress an immigration bill that includes at least temporary legal status for workers who are now undocumented. Bush will also emphasize other issues on which Democrats may want to deal, including lowering costs for college students, making health care affordable and curbing spending...
...what will be China's priorities? What does it want and what does it fear? The first item on the agenda is straightforward: it is to be left alone. China brooks no interference in its internal affairs, and its definition of what is internal is not in doubt. The status of Tibet, for example, is an internal matter; the Dalai Lama is not a spiritual leader but a "splittist" whose real aim is to break up China. As for Taiwan, China is prepared to tolerate all sorts of temporary uncertainties as to how its status might one day be resolved...
...Equally thorny is the status of the giant oil fields around Kirkuk, whose capacity is about 700,000 barrels a day, and which the Kurds claim as their own. Under the new law those revenues - like those from elsewhere - will flow into a new national Oil Fund and then be carved up among each region in proportion to its population. Since only the Kurds in the north and the Shi'ites in the south produce oil, that ensures Sunni areas around central Iraq - coyly termed "non-producing provinces" in the law - aren't left out of the deal, potentially deepening...