"Peace" as proposed by Sharon not only involves keeping significant amounts of land, but controlling the water in the West Bank and to Gaza. Here's how Israel now allots water within the region. I think you can see the Palestinions would have to be foolish to accept a proposition such as this, and as a matter of fact, this was why Clinton's last effort failed. It's Palestinian water, not Israeli water.

"Of the 601 million cubic meters [of water] produced annually by the three aquifers in the West Bank,

56.6 percent (340 million cm) is earmarked for Israeli citizens,

23.8 percent (143 million cm) for the 170,000 settlers in the West Bank and

19.6 percent (118 million cm) for 1.2 million Palestinians. The West Bank water crisis is a direct result of this unequal distribution."

--From a 08/26/1998 Ha'aretz Op'Ed by Amira Hass titled The Settlers are Not to Blame.

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