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In an ideal world, if we were writing this up as a scenario we would say let’s put this all on hold, and everyone stays away happily and nothing changes for the worse, and we pick it up perhaps when everyone is stronger. But status quos are not status quos and people know that. They either get better – or more commonly – they actually get worse because they are left neglected. I fear that this status quo, over the next 10 or 11 months if there isn’t some very significant policy activity, will deteriorate into violence.

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Wash Post: Recognizing Israel "As A Jewish State" Is A Brand New Israeli Demand

Here is some good reporting on Prime Minuster Netanyahu's demand that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state.

It is, as I've written all along, a new demand designed only to torpedo negotiations.

From the fine piece by Howard Schneider:

"It has never been an Israeli demand," said Ron Pundak, a member of Israel's negotiating team in Norway and now director of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv. "When we negotiated Oslo, the issue of the characteristics of our state was never an issue."

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