[marron]

The road map to peace is for Israel to pick a defensible border, and seal it. End of story.

Those Israelis living outside this border must be compensated and relocated to the safe side of the line. Those Arabs on the Israeli side of the line who are not willing to live under Israeli rule should similarly be compensated and relocated to the Arab side of the line.

There should be no entry by land permitted from the Arab side of the line until hostilities are ended, really ended, and have been over for some years. The Arabs on the Arab side of the line can re-attach themselves to Jordan, or Egypt, or whatever suits their fancy but access to Israeli markets by land should not be part of the bargain for some time into the future.

Anyone traveling from to Israel from the West Bank can fly by way of Amman and Cyprus. But really, there shouldn't be any good reason to do so.

[.577 Tyrannosaur]

I, for one, hope that the Israelis do reconquer it, and hold it indefinetly. A 'nation' like the Palestinians certainly does not deserve it, at any rate. (Actually, come to think of it, I don't think that they deserve any land at all...)

[risk]

Maybe the talk of Powell's departure is a signal that the Roadmap has finally gotten on President Bush's nerves, too.

It's been on mine since about day five. I had a brief moment of joy when I thought it was a "roadmap to peace." Then I found out that it was really a roadmap deeper into the bowels of hell when we continued pressuring Israel to give "concessions."

Israelis should concede not to drop napalm on anyone but Arafat, at least until the next terrorist attack. Then they should concede not to drop napalm anywhere else but each known terrorist residence or stronghold (it's splashy, we know that from Vietnam). After that, they should concede not to drop napalm and flechette ordnance anywhere but the terrorist headquarters in Damascus.

[yonif]

The PA terrorists who commenced that attack injuring 4, 2 seriously, came from Bethlehem, a city that was turned over to PA "security" as part of a "gesture" to Abu Mazen.