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Senior Director for Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey, Harvard’s top lobbyist in Washington, says he ran into Sharon Ladd, Director of the Harvard International Office (HIO), a few days after Sept...
...Sharon has previously made clear that his conception of a Palestinian state is contained within the boundaries of the 40-50 percent of the West Bank and 70 percent of Gaza currently controlled by the Palestinian Authority - with some modification to ensure territorial contiguity. And the surest indicator of what he has in mind may well be the security fence Israel is currently building to separate Israelis from West Bank Palestinians. Rather than follow the 1967 borders as originally proposed, Sharon's proposed fence essentially encircles the current PA territories in the West Bank, keeping most of the settlements...
...President Bush has made clear that he expects Sharon to "address" the settlements and allow for territorial contiguity of a Palestinian entity. The roadmap, in its first phase, requires the dismantling of all new settlements and outposts built since March 2001, and the freezing of new construction on settlements built before that. Sharon has spoken of dismantling "illegal" outposts - those built without government authorization, although his narrow use of the term "illegal" deflects attention from the fact that the legal status of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza is contested, and their future had been...
...that, of course, comes much later. More immediately, however, Sharon will insist on making only minor and mostly symbolic concessions until such time as Abbas has demonstrated a will and ability to stop terror attacks...
...Perhaps one of the few things the "roadmap" has going for it is that in the Mideast region, expectations of success are almost uniformly low. The Arabs are expecting Sharon to refuse to move against the settlers, while the Israelis are expecting Abbas to fail in his efforts to stop terrorism. Left to navigate the road map without outside supervision, the Israelis and Palestinians would unlikely stay the course for more than a couple of weeks - the reason they're talking now is that the Bush administration is micromanaging the process. And the extent of real political differences and deep...