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More from Haaretz, by journalist Wafa Amr, pointing out Arab fears about a worsening refugee situation, and how the ultimate solution might be one monolithic state:

Jordan, where some 60 percent of the population is of Palestinian origin, is worried about the prospects of internal instability if Netanyahu fails to restart a political process with the Palestinians that will lead to statehood. Jordanians genuinely fear the revival of Israeli calls to transform the small kingdom into an alternative homeland for the Palestinians.

Egypt, mediating between Israel and Hamas for the release of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit, and between the Palestinian factions to end rivalries and divisions, is also disturbed. The last thing Egypt wants is to end up with responsibility for Gaza if Israel pushes the Hamas-run coastal strip into its arms.

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Palestinians believe the world can now see for itself that a right-wing government headed by Netanyahu, which does not support a two-state solution, might well bring about the option that neither Palestinians nor Israelis want: the one-state solution. The dissolution of the Palestinian Authority by further losing credibility would amount to admitting the bankruptcy of the negotiations path.

While I’m sure Netanyahu’s coalition is bad news, there’s a certain cognitive dissonance to labeling as doves the perpetrators of the assault on Gaza, whose inability to curb West Bank settlements continued to stretch Palestinian Authority credibility to the breaking point.

It’s cliched and one-dimensional to completely conflate Likud and Kadima though, which is a tendency permeating a lot of op-eds and newspaper reports recently. Let’s see how long it’ll be before US patience, if it ever does, wears thin.