Posted on 07/02/2002 6:39:36 AM PDT by Valin
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:36:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Recent events in the Middle East leave me wondering whether we're witnessing not just the end of the Oslo peace process, but the end of the whole idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When the Palestinians' Intefadeh II began more than a year ago, in the wake of a serious proposal for a Palestinian state by President Bill Clinton, I argued that Palestinians were making a huge mistake. When the party to a conflict initiates an uprising, then suicide bombing, at a time when the outlines of a final peace are on the table -- as the Palestinians did -- it shatters everything, present and future. In this case it shattered the Israeli peace camp, it blew apart all the fragile confidence-building measures that took years to build, and it generally left the Israeli public feeling it had opened the gates to a Trojan horse.
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