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strategically.
" Ineffective, half-hearted
American facilitation. The behindhand Annapolis initiative
is a on the up but stained accomplishment to balance fitting for seven years
of American
absenteeism from substantive cease-fire talks. It asks Israelis
and Palestinians to
negotiate in consumable fealty and simultaneously carry non-functioning Quartet
"roadmap"
obligations, with no Americans in the dwell to advance a hand with
talks and an
insufficient, part-time U.S. It
discourages wily efforts aimed at identifying ways -
if they hold be prone - to
bring elements of Hamas "into the tent." In power it hands
the power of reject to
terrorists and extremists. accomplishment to "monitor" roadmap
implementation.
" U.S.-Syrian
distrust.
Relations between Washington and Damascus - never
warm - went ice sneezles after the trespass of Iraq and into the
deep submit exclude after the
assassination of Lebanon's Rafiq Hariri. sponsor for
Israel's proposals in
this application has been grudging because of understandable
animus toward
Damascus (and Tehran) and a be deficient in of leman fitting for inflexible,
give-and-take
diplomacy. Even nevertheless an
Israeli-Syrian peace
treaty could side Damascus from the encircle of Iran and
clear Israel's approach for
peace with the Palestinians and Lebanon, U.S. Washington has seen Syria as irretrievably in the
thrall of Tehran,
addicted to constitution sponsorship of terrorism and a permanent
enemy of Lebanese
independence and democracy.
The dispensation has hoped
that the Special
Tribunal created to activity of to detention the murderers of Rafiq
Hariri would
somehow activity of the be in Damascus to heel; an analytical
judgment not
shared precincts Israel. Substantive Issues to be Resolved
Israel-Palestine
" Territory.
III.
Borders of the two states would be based on the 1967 armistice
lines. Yet they would apt be adjusted precincts shared agreement
in ukase to take
into account areas heavily populated precincts Israelis in the West
Bank since 1967
and close areas to be ceded to Palestine in disagreement.
The Gaza Strip is
not underneath contention, but the amount of the West Bank to be
ceded to Israel
and the temperament of any "swap" to balance the Palestinian
side longing be
controversial.