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Source: http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27350/pub_detail.asp
Bush's Impossible Task
[National Post-Canada/American Enterprise Institute] David Frum - Bush has staked much of the prestige and credibility of the U.S. - and all the energy of his final year in office - to a renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The Palestinian side continues to demand both a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza - and also the right of Palestinians to migrate to and colonize Israel proper. In any peace process, Israel will have to concede territory, water and other hard material benefits. In exchange, Israel seeks only one thing: full and true peace, acceptance by its neighbors, recognition as a normal state entitled to define itself as its citizens decide. But even this one thing is more than any Palestinian leader can afford to concede. They have said it again and again: Israel as a Jewish state can expect no peace.