After its victory in the 1967 war, Israel annexed large swaths of Arab villages, thus expanding Jerusalem, and built blocks of Jewish settlements to create what are called facts on the ground.
Unfortunately, successive right-of-center Israeli governments, especially those led by Netanyahu, exploited security concerns to expropriate more Palestinian territory and build new and expand existing settlements to create so-called "secure borders".
Whereas both sides are hailing this as a model of cooperation, the final settlement threatens to create long-term headaches for both sides of the dispute.It was touched off earlier this month when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSAA) presented Chrysler with a recall order.
As a first step toward resuming the peace process, the Obama administration and the Palestinian leadership had been trying to get Israel to halt all settlement activity to create a more conducive environment for talks.
What I fear, though, is that Mr. Sharon wants to get rid of Mr. Arafat in order to keep Israeli West Bank settlements, not to create the conditions for them to be withdrawn.
Under the proposed settlement, Toyota agreed to create a fund of $250 million to pay claims to former owners of cars affected by the acceleration recalls.
That is why, with a portion of the proceeds of this settlement, I intend to create a new organization for victims of police brutality and their families.
Essential to the trustees' utopian plan was a tightly structured settlement system designed to create a population of yeoman farmers living in compact villages and towns and cultivating outlying garden and small farm tracts.
Perhaps Congress is relieved to be spared the need to make politically controversial decisions on a range of subjects -- from abortion to the presidential election -- in which any settlement is sure to create powerful enemies and lingering resentments.
Given that the settlement allows SGN to create its own knockoffs without fear of future litigation, suggestion is that Maestri will pursue Zynga and others for intellectual property infringement.
