[Washington Times] Justus Reid Weiner - Had Israel acquiesced to the U.S. plan several months ago when it was first brought up by Secretary of State Rice to allow truck convoys to connect Gaza and the West Bank, Hamas would have been well-positioned today to complete its conquest of the West Bank as well. For more than 10 years, initiatives have been undertaken to foist different versions of "connectivity," "contiguity" and "continuity" on successive Israeli governments. When diplomacy is restarted at some point in the future, officials will have to think out of the box and not just return to the policies of the 1990s that clearly didn't work. Maybe, considering their difference, Gaza and the West Bank will evolve separately and new political structures will have to be considered that take that possibility into account.
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