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An excellent article by New Republic correspondent Yossi Klein Halevi speaks to what it’s going to take to get the roadmap to peace to work:
The credibility of the road map depends on an explicit insistence that, this time, the Palestinian Authority act like a real authority and uproot the terrorist infrastructure. [.....]Like the Oslo process, which imposed a deadline to resolve one of the world’s most complex conflicts, the road map is driven by the clock. It envisions an interim Palestinian state emerging as early as a year from now, to be followed in 2005 by a permanent solution on the thorniest issues dividing the two sides, including refugees, final borders and the status of Jerusalem.
That artificial deadline ignores the need to carefully measure each stage of Palestinian compliance. Unlike Palestinian pledges of peaceful intent, Israel’s territorial concessions are concrete and irreversible.
The fact is, it will take years, not months, to test the transformation of Palestinian society, which has been subjected to an official, relentless hate campaign in mosques, schools and media.
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