Class 24: Some Concluding Problems

• go to class resources

Progress to date (none since 2005)

• Condi Rice and Jim Wolfensohn (ex World Bank President):
  • Gaza and EU border assistance
  • airport
  • port
  • connection with West Bank
• Rand Corp Arc transcending Israeli settlements for viable West Bank state? (Rand video presentation and complete report)

Jerusalem: the end of the two-state solution?

• recall the Geneva Accord of October 2003
• capital of a Palestinian state?
• communications between Judea (south West Bank) and Samaria (North West bank)
• recent map of the Foundation for Middle East Peace ( http://www.fmep.org) and more maps of Jerusalem

The alternative one-state solution: winner take all?

• never-ending war on terror
• Indian reservations?
• toward an open tomb?
• regional conflict: preempting Iranian nukes?
• informed speculation about Hezbollah's strategic threat
• the United States caught in the middle?

Whose objectivity?

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30 November 2008 - Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin., Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to chenry@mail.utexas.edu