The Other Half of the Peace Process

In advance of the upcoming US-sponsored Middle East peace conference, Condoleezza Rice has said that the creation of a Palestinian state is a component of US national security. But a Palestinian state will not appear now or in ten years if Israel continues build settlements in areas slated to be part of it.

PRINCETON - American officials usually spend enormous energy highlighting the “process” in the Middle East “peace process.” Only in the last 18 months of a second term president or following a military engagement in the Middle East does the United States actually start to concern itself with “peace.”

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