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Tragically, the current conflict is part of the inevitably repetitive cycle of violence that results from the absence of a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East, exacerbated by the almost unprecedented six-year absence of any real effort to achieve such a goal.
Israel Chooses Identity Over DemocracyTEL AVIV – Israel’s new “nation-state law” asserts that “the right [to exercise] national self-determination” in the country is “unique to the Jewish people,” sets Hebrew as the country’s official language, and establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” that the state will work to advance.
To secure a stable balance of power, likeminded countries must stand together in backing a rules-based regional order, thereby compelling China to embrace international norms, including dispute settlement through peaceful negotiation, rather than military intimidation or outright force.
Only genuine progress towards a just peace settlement will neutralize them as a political force.
Even with so many failed efforts in the past, there is a clear window of opportunity for the United States and Israel to urgently push for a lasting settlement.
As we know from bitter experience, waiting only makes a peace settlement harder to achieve.
With time for a two-state solution quickly running out, a speedy settlement is in everyone's best interest.
But Argentina made no friends by waiting four years to negotiate with its creditors and then offering settlement terms that were stingy by the standards of previous debt restructurings.
New negotiating parameters are also needed to resolve the conflict in Iraq, reach a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine, and, ultimately, establish a stable balance of power in the Middle East that reconciles the influence of Sunni Saudi Arabia and that of Shia Iran.
Indeed, both he and his father moved to promote an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement only after their respective Iraq wars.
Will this be enough to revitalize the moribund peace process and reach a settlement with the Palestinians?
In the peace settlement following the war, Iraq emerged from the ruins of Mesopotamia in 1921 as a quasi-independent state under British mandate.
It may also presuppose at least a temporary settlement of the main regional conflicts.
There is, alas, still only one settlement possible, based on true compromise, not unilateral imposition.
No amount of machinations by outside powers or internal forces will impose a settlement.
As a rule of thumb, diplomacy can be expected only to work with facts on the ground, not to create them, and the facts on the ground stand in the way of a regional settlement.
Libya CallingVALLETTA, MALTA – The recent signing in Tripoli of “a comprehensive claims settlement” between the United States and Libya marks a new beginning not only in US-Libya relations, but between Libya and the rest of the world.
Someone must decide soon, for example, about the division of the land and the apartments to be built in what is already known as “Khalifa bin Zaid City,” located on a former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip.
For its part, the international community must embrace Hamas’s involvement in the pursuit of a peaceful settlement of the Palestine-Israel conflict.
With 111 Indian enclaves spread over 17,000 acres in Bangladesh, and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves spread over 7,110 acres in India, a settlement would involve a net transfer of some 40 square kilometers (15.4 square miles) of territory from India to its eastern neighbor.
And, given that Bangladesh gains the most from the settlement, both officially expanding its territory and enhancing its position relative to India, the deal should face no resistance there.
The only potential change is that some residents of the Indian enclaves may migrate to India after the settlement, if they so choose.
Israel must freeze its settlement activity in the West Bank and stop constructing its barrier wall on Palestinian territories.
If only the Ukrainian national government in Kyiv, its Western allies, Russia, and the Ukrainian separatists could learn to trust each other, the thinking goes, perhaps a settlement could be reached.
But, despite the best efforts of the OSCE, the European Union, the United States, Ukraine, and even Russia, the conflict is no closer to a settlement than it was when the process began.
Second, confidence-building, to some extent, has worked against an ultimate settlement of the conflict.
More often than not, the conflicting agendas of the great powers have stood in the way of a final settlement.
China’s new assertiveness suggests that it will not allow Russia to forge a de facto Soviet Reunion and thus undo the post-Cold War settlement, under which China’s economy flourished and security increased.
Freeze the Settlement FreezeRAMALLAH – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to approve new Jewish settlements on the eve of a possible settlement freeze is the latest round in a cycle that has been repeated so many times over the past 40 years that it would seem mundane if it were not so dangerous.
The cycle goes something like this: American or international pressure mounts on Israel to stop settlement activities in the occupied territories.
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