Just another example of the US's hypocrisy on the (dead-end?) road to a two-state solution in the Middle East: the Washington Post writes today of a secret agreement with Israel that permitted the expansion of "settlements" in Palestinian territory, despite the fact that this went directly against the "road map" laid out by GWB himself.
The controversial (and not-so-secret) passage:
"In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949."
According to Colin Powell, "I consistently spoke against settlement growth, but as you know all I could do is talk against it. There would be no consequences and there still aren't." Therein lies the problem.
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