Daily Archives: January 25, 2007

At a time when a Palestinian Arab sovereign state is so widely discussed, very few have taken the time to consider the consequences of establishing such an entity. Here are questions that every citizen can bring to the attention of the U.S. government, which conceptualizes the idea, and to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which seems ready to swallow such an idea.

According to Shlomo Breznitz's, a professor of psychology who specializes in situations of stress, proposal, this step, which he calls an "international greenhouse," would be led by the European community, not the U.S., which because of its involvement in Iraq, "has lost its status as an honest broker in the view of the Palestinians and the Arab states."