Report: Kerry's security proposals accept most Israeli positions

[Ken Burch]

1. If Israel controls Palestine's border with Jordan, Palestine can't be called a real country

It will have no real sovereignty at all, and it will be forever at the mercy of the Israeli government.

Any Palestinian leadership that agreed to that would immediately be overthrown, because 90% of Palestinians, including most of the nonviolent, would see it as an intolerable humiliation.

You don't build a negotiated peace on the assumption that one party to it can be trusted but the other can't.