Israeli Settlements

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Charles Krauthammer has an interesting article at Townhall.com regarding the Israeli settlements.  He points out the irony of the fact that after President Obama made such a point of saying to the Arab countries that America would no longer tell other countries what to do, he is telling Israel what to do concerning the settlements on the West Bank.  In his usual concise way, Charles Krauthammer points out:

"Over the last decade, the U.S. government has understood that any final peace treaty would involve Israel retaining some of the close-in settlements -- and compensating the Palestinians accordingly with land from within Israel itself.

That was envisioned in the Clinton plan in the Camp David negotiations in 2000, and again at Taba in 2001. After all, why turn towns to rubble when, instead, Arabs and Jews can stay in their homes if the 1949 armistice line is shifted slightly into the Palestinian side to capture the major close-in Jewish settlements, and then shifted into Israeli territory to capture Israeli land to give to the Palestinians?"

Why has the State Department of President Obama refused to endorse these agreements or even say it will honor them?  The represents a definite change in American policy toward Israel.  The policy of this administration on the settlements is 'no growth at all'--if a child is born in the settlements, someone has to move out in order for that child to live there.  This is not practical.

The article also points out:

"In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders -- Fatah and Hamas alike -- built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would relieve their people's suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts."

Until the above situation changes, a two-state solution is a pipe dream.  All we would be doing by setting up a Palestinian state under the current conditions would be to establish a diplomatically recognized terrorist state.

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