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A good post over at Wiskey Bar. Just a snippet:

The Israelis are too close to what they really want (full and total control of the land and resources between the Jordan and the sea) and the Palestinians are too far away from what they really want (for the Jews to go back where they came from) for there to be any basis for meaningful negotiations. Not without a disinterested outside party to crack skulls on both sides if and when necessary.

The problem is that all strategies for peace rest on the simple proposition that the Israelis and the Palestinians both wage war with certain policy goals in mind -- and that the key to getting them to stop fighting is to make them (particularly the Palestinians) understand that they can achieve those goals more successfully through negotiations.

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