(Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University) The Palestinian parameters for a peace agreement are clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of people in Israel, fall short of assuring sufficient security and demographic conditions, and fail to guarantee the end of the conflict. INSS experts, together with former senior Israeli officials, have worked to design a plan that would take the dominant paradigms on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a new stage. It is a plan that combines bilateral and regional agreements and independent steps to ensure a process of separation from the Palestinians, while maintaining an uncompromising stance on security and keeping future political options open. We aim to shape Israel by our founding fathers' principles, without being held hostage to the Palestinians' veto. There is currently a window of opportunity, with a strong Israel, a friendly U.S. administration, an Arab world that shares interests with Israel and is by and large willing to work with it, and the reduction of the Palestinian cause in world affairs to size.
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