Monday, January 12, 2009

Gaza Crisis Imperils 2-State Plan

Israeli soldiers at a staging area on the Israel-Gaza border on Monday.
(Sebastian Scheiner/The Associated Press)

From International Herald Tribune:

CAIRO: With every image of the dead in Gaza inflaming people across the Arab world, Egyptian and Jordanian officials are worried that they see a fundamental tenet of the Middle East peace process slipping away: the so-called two-state solution, an independent Palestinian state coexisting with Israel.

Egypt and Jordan fear that they will be pressed to absorb the Palestinian populations now living beyond their borders. If Israel does not assume responsibility for humanitarian aid in Gaza, for example, pressure could compel Egypt to fill the vacuum; Jordan, in turn, worries that Israel will try to push Palestinians from the West Bank into its territory.

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