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Title:Is Peace possible? (1)
Name:Dan Chazan
City: State: Israel
As the process is defined now it seems to most (except Livni and Rice) that it is doomed to a failure. Most Israelis suspect that if there is
agreement there will be a quick process which will result in an unstable Palestinian state. The term "terror state" was coined by Netanyahu.

This is probably justified as there is not likely to be a great deal of Palestinian support for any measures requiring fighting the militias, as they do not turst Israel to do its part.

On the other hand, I believe that there is a definition of peace (borders, Jerusalem, refugees) which can be acceptable to a majority of Palestinians and of Isralis.

However for this majority to act it is necessary to carefully define the process.

An outline of such a definition of the process is given in:

http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000619.htm