"We get too worked up about various proposed diplomatic arrangements." So said Dr. Meir Rosenne, who served in the past as Israel's Ambassador to the United States, on Arutz-7's morning program. "The fact that we have no Arab partner causes us to wage the negotiations between and amongst ourselves, and this leads to a split in the nation, creating the impression in the world that we are not united. Every day another politician comes with another proposal, as if the Arab side had already agreed to it. This creates a mistaken impression. So far, the only proposal that the Arabs have ever accepted is that we return to the 1949 borders."



Continuing this line of thought, Arab affairs expert Dr. Yossi Olmert said that the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority are in fact not at all "encouraged" by Sharon's Gaza plan. "They fear that the plan is meant to separate them from their jobs in Israel," said Olmert, brother of Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "Their situation in the PA is not so good, as those who run it are not doing a good job. The resignation of the mayor of Shechem [Nablus], and the request by Abu Ala's daughter for Israeli citizenship are symptoms of a known phenomenon: the PA is crumbling, its government is not functioning, and Arafat is running it by himself the same way he ran the PLO in the past - with corruption and lack of financial transparency."