(Baltimore Sun) - Brent Scowcroft The unique - and almost certainly vital - element in the road map is its requirement for parallel rather than sequential actions by Israelis and Palestinians. The insistence in prior proposals that a prerequisite to negotiations must be a cessation of violence from the Palestinian side has been a virtual guarantee that there would, in fact, be no negotiations. Violence cannot be completely stifled and to require its total cessation as a precondition is simply to put control of the process in the hands of the radicals opposed to any settlement.
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