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the President is just following in the very important tradition that he's begun. He was the first to call, as a matter of policy, for a Palestinian state, for a two-state solution. He was stating very clearly that Israel's future will rest in Israel, in places like Galilee and in the Negev, and that the occupation of the West Bank will have to end and a Palestinian state will need to be established.in the next 17 months, I expect to be fully devoted to that: to helping the Palestinians get at least closer to statehood
The United States doesn't want Made-in-America solutions.
Occupation? We never heard American State Department types saying that when Jordan was occupying the ‘West Bank’ of the Jordan River, but since Israel is involved it’s a whole other story.
Bush/Rice see giving up Jerusalem as well as a swath of land connecting Gaza with Judea-Samaria so Muslim Palestine will be ‘contiguous’.
And enlightened Israelis will see the pointlessness of trying to defend an isolated, sparsely-populated Negev.