From today’s Jerusalem Post: “Don Quixote diplomacy“:

Today the faces stare out at us from our front page and ask: What are you waiting for? How many more of us must die? How long will you postpone the inevitable?

To Yossi Beilin, the Arab world, Europe, and the US State Department, the inevitable is the hurried formation of a Palestinian state more or less along the 1967 boundaries, a notion that also goes by the name ‘political horizon.’ To the rest of us, including most of the government and people, the leaders of the security services, perhaps President George W. Bush, and certainly most Americans, the inevitable is the application of the Bush Doctrine to Yasser Arafat.

The clash between these two inevitabilities must be resolved if the current carnage is to be stopped. The way to resolve the clash is to recognize that the ‘political horizon’ is just that: an ever-receding target, not a fixed destination. There is much work to be done before we should try to embark on that journey.

The urgent task is not to define the political horizon but the opposite: All talk of horizons, all conference preparations, all envoy missions, all time line preparations should simply stop. Because if they do not stop, the message is that the more Israelis are murdered, the more the world will run around looking for something to give the Palestinians so that they will stop.

Yeah. Hear that Wang? Finally, a “divestiture” idea that anti-idiotarians can get behind…

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