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02/28/2003 Archived Entry: "Think the unthinkable"

RE: MIDDLE EAST: Think the unthinkable, says Mark Steyn.

"These days, everything's thinkable, everything's up for grabs. But, once you recoil from the unthinkable, it's all too easy to slump back into the unthinking. Take Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, veterans of that golden age, the Ford-Carter era. They wrote a thing in The Wall Street Journal a week or so back arguing that we urgently need to get -- ta-da! -- the Palestinian 'peace process' back on track. To this end, they propose several exciting new ideas that sound exactly like the same old ideas: a Palestinian state on the land occupied by Israel since 1967; a '100% Palestinian Authority effort to end violence'; a Jerusalem that will 'accommodate two separate sovereignties' yet be 'physically undivided' ..."

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