[With sound link] Great news: Secy. Of State Clinton suggests status quo sustainable for 3 decades

Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
15 September '10

"The status quo is unsustainable. Now that doesn't mean that it can't be sustained for a year or a decade or two or three."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQAdqwUspjs
Secretary of State Clinton speaking in Jerusalem after meeting with President Shimon Peres
15 September 2010



It's not just that Israeli have a planning horizon that considers a decade an eternity - so three decades is profoundly irrelevant. No one has an idea what the region will be like in the coming decades - with the possibility that developments will make the existence of a sovereign Palestinian state even more of an existential threat to Israel than critics consider it today.

And of course, the other side of the coin: if the sustainability of the status quo may be a problem in 2040, there is certainly more than enough time available for Israel's leaders to come up with solutions that don't involve the creation of a potentially life threatening Palestinian state in Israel's very heart.

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