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Defensible Borders
(Jerusalem Post) Ruthie Blum - Jerusalem Center head Dr. Dore Gold said in an interview Friday: "After disengagement, members of the Quartet may come to Washington and say, 'Look, we have a very serious problem before the January elections in the Palestinian Authority. Abu Mazen is too weak; Hamas is gaining strength; the way to build him up is to provide him with a "political horizon." It's not enough that he's getting a Palestinian state. He needs to know what that state will look like - what its territorial contours are.' Then it could be proposed that the Quartet get behind a unified position that the Palestinian state will be based on the '67 borders - though the words 'based on' provide Arik Sharon with a little wiggle room." "The U.S. should reject such an effort for a variety of reasons, but on one basis in particular, and that is that it's contrary to the Bush letter to Sharon....Because of the Bush letter, the U.S. should say, 'If you ask us, the American position is that Israel is entitled to defensible borders and it's only realistic that it retain settlement blocs.'"