lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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John Bolton proposes in today's Washington Post giving up on Palestinian governance and a two-state solution, instead opting for a "three-state approach" in which "Gaza is returned to Egyptian control
and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian
sovereignty." ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
Not Jordanians . Since severing ties with the
West Bank in 1988, Jordan settled on a consensus
position for dealing with contentious issues of Jordanian-Palestinian relations: "Jordan is Jordan and Palestine is Palestine". There is no Jordan option ...
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Marc Lynch | A FOREIGN POLICY blog
walt.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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walt.foreignpolicy.com —
Here's a thought experiment: Imagine that Egypt, Jordan,
and Syria had won the Six Day War, leading
to a massive exodus of Jews from the territory of Israel. Imagine that the victorious Arab states had eventually decided to permit the Palestinians to ...
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What if Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War?
israelmatzav.blogspot.com - 1/5/2009
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israelmatzav.blogspot.com —
I like John Bolton. I really do. But
he goes way off base in an op-ed in
today's Washington Post. Bolton assumes that the State Department's view of the world is correct: that Israel's conflict with the Arabs is about land and not about Israel's ...
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Bolton's static world
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Bolton in Fantasyland
Matthew Yglesias —
... . Marc Lynch further observes that this idea is opposed by the government of Egypt, opposed by the government of Jordan, and opposed by the Palestinians. It’s a total non-starter. ...
Amygdala —
... Instead, we should look to a "three-state" approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty. Aside from the minor, trivial, teeny-weeny, little stumbling blocks that the Palestinians, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Arab League, and the rest of the Arab and Muslim world would never settle for it, I see no problem at all! ADDENDUM: I see that Marc Lynch as, unsurprisingly, outlined the tiny problems in more detail.
FP.com (Jan 5)
Abu Aardvark —
... to everyone for their kind words here, there, and about. I do seem to be having some trouble transferring the Feedburner e-mail subscriptions over to the new site, though. While I try to figure that out, I'll continue to post links here to the new posts so that readers who have come to depend on the email service at least know what and when I'm writing, and continue to get the daily roundup of tags. The first three posts over at FP.com are, in reverse order:
Bolton's Zombie Idea, in which I take on his "three-state solution" and the eternal recurrence of ...
Jordan and Palestine: The Zombie Lives!
The Reality-Based Community —
... Marc Lynch accurately dismisses John Bolton's ridiculous proposal for the "Three-State Solution" (i.e. Egypt takes over Gaza and Jordan takes over the West Bank) as a "zombie idea". One has to wonder Bolton's strange power to alienate everyone in the world except for the op-ed page editors of major American newspapers: ...
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