Some reservations about a nation.
2002 April 24
In the essay Worse Than No Deal At All, Ahmad Faruqui of the American Institute of International Studies in California examines the Clinton-Barak deal. You know, the one Arafat turned down. Practically everyone has been talking about what a good deal this was for Palestinians, but Faruqui thinks it wasn’t all that hot. The Palestinian “state” would have been in several pieces, with borders controled by the Israelies and all of the water in Israel’s hands. “Such a state would have resembled the Bantustans of formerly white South Africa, or perhaps American Indian reservations, a series of enclaves still dependent on the colonial power,” Faruqui says. That’s something to think about.