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With No Road Map, the Peace Process Is Lost in New Territory
(Financial Times-UK) Philip Stephens - The mindset of most outsiders, including international negotiators in the Quartet, is still framed by the Oslo accords of the early 1990s. The so-called road map to a two-state solution is rooted in the idea that the peace process that began then can be revived. Talk to Israelis or Palestinians in such terms and the response falls somewhere along a spectrum from pity to contempt. Whatever lip-service may still be paid to Oslo, both sides will tell you that the approach was long ago overtaken by events. The moment for grand bargains in American log cabins has passed.