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Before delving into the question of what follows the death of the two-state solution we must get a certificate of death. This may prove to be more difficult than getting a certificate of live birth for President Obama. Everyone prefers to kick a dead horse, so to speak, than to acknowledge it is dead. The Arabs were against the creation of Israel in the first place. They opposed the Palestine Mandate, The Partition Plan, The Declaration of Independence by Israel and Resolution 242. In 1968 they decided at the Khartoum Conference on the three “no’s”; no recognition, no negotiation and...

Click here for an example of Taiwanese hostage negotiation. The police in this country would have been skewered and placed over coals if they did it this way.

THE White House has denied the US government has been negotiating in Iraq with "terrorists" and Saddam Hussein loyalists but says it is "reaching out" to those rejecting the political process. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the United States was "not talking" with al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, "other terrorists," or loyalists of ousted president Saddam Hussein. "But part of our strategy, a critical element of our strategy, is to broaden participation in the political process," McClellan told reporters. "We have been reaching out to the rejectionists." Washington wants "rejectionists" to understand that "the way forward is...