get out of the west bank, get out of east jerusalem, settle the problem on the basis of the president clinton s peace parameters, build the highest wall you want, but get out of their story because their story is going to be in turbulence. second, with egypt in particular, israel has enjoyed peace wholesale with egypt. it had peace with one man, hosni mubarak and he delivered the whole country. as egypt democratizes and is successful egypt will have to have peace retail and have it with 80 million egyptians and, therefore, they are going to have a say much more in the quality of israeli/egyptian relations and that s why i think it s vital for israel to d everything it can to test i have no idea whether the palestinians can organize themselves, you know, for a peace treaty.
successful egypt will have to have peace retail and have it with 80 million egyptians and, therefore, they are going to have a say much more in the quality of israeli/egyptian relations and that s why i think it s vital for israel to do everything it can to test i have no idea whether the palestinians can organize themselves, you know, for a peace treaty. they re divided too but i know this, piers, that at a time when israeli jews are demographically heading for a situation where they will be a minority to palestinian arabs in the area between the mediterranean and the jordan river, it is in israel s vital interest to test, to test and then test again whether it has a palestinian partner for a secure peace especially at a time when the palestinians have what i believe and i think many israelis would agree the most decent and
and i think in this turbulent time it is of vital israeli interest to get out of their story if israel can, okay. try to get out of their story. israel is not the cause of this turbulence, okay, it was not the spark for it but that doesn t mean it cannot be drawn into it. get out of the west bank, get out of east jerusalem, settle the problem on the basis of the president clinton s peace parameters, build the highest wall you want, but get out of their story because their story is going to be in turbulence. second, with egypt in particular, israel has enjoyed peace wholesale with egypt. it had peace with one man, hosni mubarak and he delivered the whole country. as egypt democratizes and is successful egypt will have to have peace retail and have it with 80 million egyptians and, therefore, they are going to