Sixteen years and three hundred and fifty thousand settlors ago the Palestinians(who if Jordan had not tried to invade Israel in 1967 would still be Jordanians and who prior to 1948 would have been Arabs), led by that arch gangster Yassir Arafat, turned down a deal, crafted by that great dealmaker Bill Clinton, which all those countries Heinbecker cites as being against the settlements(except the Muslim ones, of course)thought acceptable. To discuss the provenance of this resolution, and not take into account that monumental missed opportunity by a people best known for never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity, and not allocate the lion's share of the blame for the current state of affairs to those people, is either cynicism at its highest(or lowest I guess), or simple anti-Semitism. Take your pick. Either way the article is a fraud by a diplomat who has achieved fame(notoriety) primarily because of his resolutely anti-Israel positions taken over the years. Over to you, mob.