Settlement
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There were moments during the Thirty Years War when a political
settlement
might have been possible.
It will also have to accept the wish of the huge majority of Palestinians for a peaceful
settlement
with Israel.
Middle East IntegrationThe attempts now being made to revive the “road map” to a final
settlement
of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the creation of a Palestinian state are at only a preliminary stage.
The original road map sketched out at the Madrid Conference in 1991 envisaged two stages: the final
settlement
of disputes between the Palestinians and Israel, and the permanent
settlement
of regional conflicts.
NATO has sufficient power to impose such a
settlement.
Indeed, far from criticizing continuing Israeli
settlement
of the West Bank, Obama has pledged his support – more than some members of the Israeli Cabinet have done – to Jerusalem as an undivided capital of Israel.
This year, as the American-led effort to mediate a Middle East peace
settlement
began to falter, Turkey took up the job of mediator in both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conflict between Syria and Israel.
The US does not challenge China’s sovereignty, but it wants a peaceful
settlement
that will maintain Taiwan’s democratic institutions.
The US has cast aside one of its most important foreign policy tools, creating an incentive for the Syrian government and its supporters to keep fighting until they are in the most advantageous position possible to negotiate a
settlement
– that is, if they have any incentive to negotiate at all.
The $4.3 Billion ShrugLONDON – In November, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a
settlement
in which six banks would be fined a total of $4.3 billion for manipulating the foreign-exchange market.
One reason, of course, is that the
settlement
was known to be coming; only the details of the offenses and the scale of the fines were news.
Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that the top 22 banks in the United States and Europe have been forced to pay $230 billion since 2009 – more than 50 times the cost of the FCA
settlement.
The reputational impact of each new
settlement
is modest, despite the escalation in the level of fines imposed.
This approach – aimed more at withdrawing forces as soon as possible than at ensuring enduring peace and regional stability – is being dressed up as “reconciliation,” with Qatar, Germany, and the United Kingdom getting lead roles in facilitating a
settlement.
From Turkey’s perspective, an Israeli or American strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would destabilize the region further, as Iran would undoubtedly retaliate by fueling sectarian tensions and undermining the prospects of a
settlement
in both Syria and Iraq.
He has fallen desperately short in making real progress towards the Promised Land, in which America lives in peace with the Muslim world, thanks to an Israeli-Palestinian settlement; brings about a nuclear-free planet (a noble, yet entirely delusional pledge); gets Russia’s support in addressing other global problems; contains China’s quest to translate its growing economic power into major strategic gains; ends its two diversionary wars in Muslim countries; and leads a solid international alliance to cut short Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
China’s free-floating rise, unanchored in any regional structure or settlement, makes this mindset particularly worrying.
Meanwhile, Germany is focused on organizing the reception and
settlement
of a massive influx of refugees.
When American diplomats complained about Jewish settlers’ forcible intrusion into Palestinian neighborhoods, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded that Jerusalem was not a settlement, but the capital of Israel.
Xi told Singh that he sought “a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable
settlement
based on mutual understanding and accommodation,” adding significantly, “Let’s settle the boundary framework agreement quickly.”
Perhaps the greatest uncertainty concerned the extent to which big US corporations would get what they wanted in the areas of investor-government dispute
settlement
and intellectual property protection.
Admittedly, the strategic conditions in the region are far more complex today than they were eight years ago, when Israel’s requirements for a deal with Syria focused mainly on security arrangements on the Golan Heights, and on Syria using its leverage in Lebanon to permit an Israeli
settlement
with that country.
In the last round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks eight years ago, it was clear that a deal with Syria would automatically pave the way to a
settlement
with Lebanon, and an end to Hezbollah’s threat to Israel’s northern border.
Nevertheless, peace with Syria could be a major building block in a wider Israeli-Arab settlement, and consequently of a more stable Middle East, though it is unrealistic to expect that Syria would automatically sever its special relationship with Iran in exchange for the Golan Heights.
When such candidates come to power, the space for negotiations narrows, and the chances of brokering a
settlement
between opposing sides decreases.
Even worse, given that Obama’s effort to enforce a permanent moratorium on new
settlement
construction in the West Bank has failed, is that direct negotiations between the conflicting parties have run aground.
Europe’s current turmoil will produce a new
settlement
probably as momentous as any since that moment 66 years ago.
The stated goal of intervention in Syria should be to stop Assad from committing mass murder against his own population, which has forced millions to flee the country, and to convince him and his supporters that if they cannot win by any means, they are better off negotiating a genuine peace settlement, however fragile.
In the face of relentless
settlement
expansion, failed evacuation of outposts, and the construction of new Jewish neighborhoods in areas that never belonged, either geographically or historically, to the city of Jerusalem, the doves should take an unequivocal stance and say: stop, enough.
That is why today’s Israeli doves believe that a two-state solution remains the only viable
settlement.
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