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A novelist, a scholar, a settler leader and a journalist ponder the country's options in the face of Beilin's initiative
A.B. YEHOSHUA: What's the alternative?
When I learned that a detailed agreement, with all of its clauses and maps, had been signed in Jordan by Israelis and Palestinians, I was very excited. Here, for the first time, was a document that did not merely state principles and ideas, vague declarations, or wishes and hopes that each side could later interpret its own way, sometimes even reversing their meaning.
URI ELITZUR: Defeat terrorism
The "vision of a Palestinian state" is something we have already tried. In the 10 years since Oslo, particularly the last three, we have seen what the Palestinians intend to do with the tools of independence and statehood, if they are given them.
MARK A. HELLER: In the meantime
Let's begin by dispensing with a couple of nonsensical myths about the so-called Geneva Initiative. The first is that a group of individuals led by Yossi Beilin has somehow undermined or usurped the legal authority of the elected Israeli government by negotiating with a "foreign government or any officer or any agent thereof" (the words of the American Logan Act).
AMNON LORD: Principles and red lines
The Palestinians, led by Yasser Arafat, are waging a revolutionary war against Israel on many fronts and with various allies. The Israelis planning a propaganda "ceremony" to sign the Geneva Initiative are part of that system, even if we assume their intentions are good.
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