Summary
The differences between the new American administration and the rightist Israeli government are likely to bring about a diplomatic freeze precisely when Israel needs effective American action more than ever.
So as not to encounter additional years of political stagnation, after which Israel will become a country whose Jewish minority controls a Palestinian majority, while surrounded by hostile Arab states, Israel and the U.S. – individually and together – must create fundamental diplomatic changes:
- Israeli recognition of the Arab Peace Initiative as a foundation for negotiations
- A new American/international peace initiative based on the Arab Peace Initiative
- Involving additional countries in negotiations, alongside the U.S.
- Altering several fundamental Israel positions that essentially conflict with the country's interests
- Creating a number of parallel “road maps” that simultaneously obligate all regional and international actors
- Reaching a regional agreement that dismantles the “Arab world-Israel” dichotomy, replacing it with one of “moderate world-extremist world”
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