[risk]

''Israel is to have no control over the borders and airspace of “Palestine,” thus no control over the importation of military hardware from throughout the Arab world.''

I can't see that working out well for Israel. Given our investment in the security and safety of the Jewish people in the middle east, I can't see why we would agree to such a proposal unless we just want to watch it collapse, much as every other rational (yet disadvantageous) proposal has garnered.

[SJackson]

''Israel is to have no control over the borders and airspace of “Palestine,” thus no control over the importation of military hardware from throughout the Arab world.''

This is one of the many significant achievements of Yasser's recent reign of terror. All previous discussions of a "state" acknowledged the fact that it would be demilitarized, and that Israel would have control of airspace and be responsible for defence. Aside from the obvious problem of Egyptian (Iraq is out of the equation for now) tanks in Gaza and the West Bank, the airspace issue alone will require significant commercial flight curtailments into Tel Aviv, and resulting economic harm.

Terror can work, and Yasser's a master at playing the west.