The Road Map

The "Road Map," our Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan, is a dead end leading nowhere. It puts the cart before the horse since negotiations should come first, not last. Just as a country has a right to defend itself, a people living under occupation have an innate right to resistance. The Road Map takes away this right without offering the promise of a just settlement in return. Indeed, Israeli colonization and usurpation of West Bank water resources indicates that their final solution will be unfair, as was the proposal Yasir Arafat correctly refused in 2000 (See maps, Harper's Magazine, December 2001, p. 88).