The State Department is financing a study on the conditions for establishing a Palestinian state. But the study has ended up in the hands of a pro-Palestinian group at the Council for Foreign Policy in New York. Or so reported Ze'ev Schiff in this article in Ha'aretz.
Schiff makes a point so obvious as to be beneath the State Department's notice:
The study ignored the fact that for the last two years a war initiated by the Palestinians has been underway. The lessons from this war must be the basis for any future security arrangements. In light of massive Palestinian violations of the agreements, which began while Rabin was still prime minister, and the lies that have since been exposed, Israel must insist on much wider security margins than those in the Oslo Accords and the interim agreements.
So can we stop talking about the "Clinton proposals" already? Please???
