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The New Mideast Talks: Much Risk, Little Hope, But Still We Must Try

(New York Times) Aaron David Miller - Right now, there's almost no chance of achieving a conflict-ending agreement; yet by pressing the Israelis and Palestinians back toward the table, the U.S. has assumed responsibility for producing one. A conflict-ending accord may not be possible now, but without a credible negotiation to manage the situation, it will only deteriorate further. A conflict-ending accord that resolves the core issues - borders, Jerusalem, security, refugees, and recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people - and that also adjudicates all claims and forswears further ones seems almost unimaginable. The two sides don't yet share a common concept for reaching it. The writer is a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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