What Israelis and Palestinians most need now is a firm American hand to guide them to a fair and workable bargain on borders, settlements and security, allowing the creation of a territorially viable Palestinian state.
Mr Abu Mariya organises protests in Beit Omar, a town on the West Bank, against Israel's appropriation of land for settlements and security walls that can cut through Palestinian farms and hurt the villagers' livelihood.
Mr. Barak believed that the Palestinians were procrastinating and, even after nine days at Camp David, were not presenting a clear position on several core issues, including borders, settlements and security matters.
These include borders, settlements and security.
That, and the other settlements and "security zones," were going to carve a future Palestine into pieces!
The offer made by Ehud Barak, then Israel's prime minister, was a plan for continued Israeli control through a matrix of roads, settlement blocks and security corridors locking Palestinians into bantustans.
Constitutive domains include political settlement and regime, security, rule of law, administrative governance; while output domains include service delivery (health, education, utilities, etc)., justice system and processes and economic governance.
Mr. Abbas called for discussions on "borders, Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, water and security".
Heat waves, droughts, extreme rain and flash flood risks are projected to increase, threatening ecosystems and human settlements, health and security.
All the "final-status issues" — Jerusalem, borders, refugees, settlements, water and security — will have to be left for later.
