{"id":2590,"date":"2002-07-02T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2002-07-02T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2002-07-02T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2002-07-02T07:40:27","slug":"negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"NEGOTIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Cooper (the law professor) responds<\/a> to my comment about removing settlements with a reasonable post:<\/p>\n

Given the continuing suicide bombings, this isn\u0092t an appropriate time for large-scale removal of settlements, as any such action would likely be seen as proof that terrorism works. And the settlements present a practical political problem for Sharon, whose governing coalition depends in part on those who support the settlements. At some point, though, it\u0092s going to have to be made clear\u0097both as a carrot to the Palestinians and as a message of reality to the Israeli far right\u0097that the majority of the settlements ultimately will have to be dismantled. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree that it would be a mistake to reward murder-bombings through a meaningful reduction in Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza; in fact I think the reoccupation is a Good Idea.
\nBut in part, I negotiate for a living, and one principle I’ve found to work well in contentious negotiations (like the ones we’re going through right now on the house we will buy on Tuesday) is to periodically show the other side a little daylight. Show them that they can in fact get something if they cooperate.
\nNow I remain unconvinced, as I’ve said earlier, that there is anyone to negotiate with on the Palestinian side. But if I’m wrong, and there is, the question is how to show them some daylight without giving up anything material. And it looks to me like the Israelis have done exactly that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Cooper (the law professor) responds to my comment about removing settlements with a reasonable post: Given the continuing suicide bombings, this isn\u0092t an appropriate time for large-scale removal of settlements, as any such action would likely be seen as proof that terrorism works. And the settlements present a practical political problem for Sharon, whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}