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Israel is most at fault for this failure, owing to its continued military occupation and illegal settlements.
Two of those settlements came after O’Reilly’s own departure.
And the massive exit packages they received – $40 million for Ailes and up to $25 million for O’Reilly – far exceeded the settlements quietly paid to their victims, who were forced out of the company long before their harassers were.
Realism's Gift to Palestinian RadicalsIn support of Ariel Sharon's plan to evacuate unilaterally all Gaza settlements and a few in the West Bank, the Bush administration backed Israel's stance on borders and refugees, two of the most important issues of Palestinian-Israeli final status negotiations.
By presenting the settlements' evacuation as a unilateral step, Sharon allows Palestinian militants to present it as Israel bowing to the "reality" of defeat inflicted by their armed struggle.
Israel's disengagement plan presents the evacuation of Gaza settlements as an end to 37 years of occupation.
The alternative is leaving hundreds of thousands of children on the streets, languishing in informal settlements with an uncertain future.
During this time, 50 million people left an overcrowded agricultural Europe for resource-rich new settlements.
This explains why China was so generous to Russia, for example, in its border settlements.
But a return to the 1967 borders would mean that large settlement blocks – as well as smaller settlements and East Jerusalem – would be part of the Palestinians state.
For Israelis, these talks will relieve US and other international pressure, while at the same time providing some legitimacy to Netanyahu’s position of talking peace without giving up on settlements and Jerusalem.
Its impact, both actual and potential, is relatively limited when compared to ongoing attempts to enhance and democratize lending, borrowing, investing, and payments and settlements.
Some Israeli religious factions claim a right to the land on both sides of the Jordan River, and others aver that their 205 settlements with some 500,000 people are necessary for “security.”
The government of Bangladesh has demonstrated extraordinary generosity in responding to the crisis, providing land, keeping borders open, and helping to build new settlements.
The growing number of madrassas springing up in refugee settlements will magnified these risks.
In the interests of defusing social tensions, that plan should extend beyond the refugee settlements to host communities.
Blair will also likely press Israel to prove its intentions by stopping all settlement activity in the West Bank – no new settlements, no expansion of existing ones.
Settlements demand compromise.
This looks like a green light for all those intransigent supporters of the settlers who have campaigned for the development of East Jerusalem deep into the West Bank, a line of settlements running down to the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem will be divided, Palestinian refugees will not return to their ancestral homes, and Jewish settlements in the West Bank will, like their Gaza counterparts, be dismantled or (inconceivably) left to fend for themselves.
This provoked such bad publicity that the police backed off, while still blocking the road to the new settlements.
This implies that Jews can push farther and farther into East Jerusalem, as well as build settlements on Palestinian territories around the city, which Israel now claims to be part of Jerusalem.
Countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany have achieved low unemployment (now around 5%), by deregulating labor markets, expanding vocational training, and reaching sensible wage settlements.
Perhaps Obama’s central error was that an important but minor matter – stopping new settlements – was given central significance.
There is still the remote possibility, however unlikely, that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will come to Annapolis with a concrete plan (a divided Jerusalem, a return to the 1967 borders with minor alterations, compensation for refugees), and a calendar to dismantle West Bank settlements.
At least 80% was to be invested in schools, healthcare, roads, electricity, and provision of potable water, while 5% would be allocated to the oil-producing areas and to settlements along the pipeline’s route.
For example, hawks advocating for a more spirited response to Iranian-sponsored aggression in the Golan Heights will be emboldened, as will those insisting on more construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
The fact that in Israel a parliamentary majority still permits the expansion of settlements – the construction of 200 new housing units was recently authorized, despite a warning from Obama – means that those who would undermine peace remain in action.
In continuing to expand settlements, Israel leaves gradually less and less room for the creation of a viable Palestinian state, which requires a contiguous and unified territory.
Until now, efforts to resolve the conflict have been confined to the contours of the Oslo model, according to which the route to Palestinian self-determination traverses bilateral agreement on borders, settlements, territory, and the right of return.
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