The Mirage of Mideast Peace by Pat Buchanan

Sharon is prime minister because he campaigned against Barak’s policy of trading “land for peace.” And if he is going through hell to get Israelis to yield Gaza, does anyone think he could, or would, try to convince Israelis to abandon West Bank settlements he himself implanted and pledged to retain forever?

Get America to sign on to Israel’s annexation of wide swatches of the West Bank, to rejection of Palestinians’ right of return, to a Greater Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital, and to a security wall incorporating Palestinian land. Then embalm the “peace process” indefinitely.