What will the next developments regarding US-Israel relations and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process be? It’s possible to make some good predictions, or at least to present the most likely scenarios.
On September 26, Israel’s one-year freeze on building inside West Bank settlements will end. Last October, the original commitment was extended to any construction in Jerusalem outside the pre- 1967 ceasefire lines. The Palestinian Authority now demands that this freeze be extended as a precondition for it entering direct talks with Israel. It also insists that Israel accept the 1967 borders as a defining boundary between itself and a future Palestinian state and agree that an international force patrol them.
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