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Article: Mideast burnout: the administration is handling the Israelis all wrong. (the role of United States negotiations in the Israeli West Bank deployment)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 3, 1998
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The Administration is handling the Israelis all wrong.
Mr. Rodman, an NR senior editor, is director of national-security programs at the Nixon Center.
Israelis, Palestinians, and American mediators seem to be slogging their way toward some kind of a deal involving a partial Israeli redeployment on the West Bank and some quid pro quo that satisfies Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political requirements. But this ''victory,'' even if achieved, will have been drained of all significance. One of the theories of the American strategy of ''step-by-step'' negotiations was that agreement on incremental steps would breed the mutual confidence to make further steps ...