Talk about walking into a no-win situation. Anyone who rates this higher than a "1" better have a good answer for these questions posed by Robert Kagan in a Washington Post editorial of April 18: "Let's say we get a peace agreement and we put the peacekeeping force on the ground between the Israelis and Palestinians. What happens when, despite all our best efforts, the occasional Hamas suicide bomber gets through anyway and commits the occasional massacre in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv? Count on it: This will happen. And what about when Hezbollah tries to use the new Palestinian state created by the peace settlement the way it now uses southern Lebanon, as a convenient place from which to launch Katyusha rockets at Israeli population centers? What do we do then?" It would seem we either have to (1) lead or sanction a war against the PLO and inflame all of the Arab world, or (2) hold Israel back from responding, and thereby become a shield for terrorists to hide behind. That's the last thing the US or NATO or the UN should want to be.
