Israel may lock Palestinians into own state

[Brad De Long]

>Financial Times - October 19, 2000
>
>Israel may isolate Palestinians in own state
>By Judy Dempsey in Jerusalem
>
>Top Israeli military and political officials are drawing up plans 
>that threaten to lock the Palestinians into a small, disconnected 
>state separate from Israel as a last resort if peace negotiations 
>are not resumed...
>
>The West Bank and Gaza Strip would be separated from Israel by 
>severing economic relations and cutting off access to the 
>electricity, water and telecommunications grids that Israel 
>controls. Heavily fortified crossing points would also be built 
>between the two states.
>
>On the ground, 30 per cent of the 200,000 Jewish settlers would be 
>uprooted from isolated settlements, while three large clusters of 
>settlements would be annexed to Israel. The Jordan Valley, an 
>Israeli buffer zone between the West Bank and Jordan, would also be 
>annexed...

A very bad outcome indeed...

Ever since I first read the resolutions from the August 1967 Khartoum 
summit, I have thought that this might be the end of the road...

Brad DeLong