The Reagan/Haig approach and its order of priorities are correct, and the EEC/Carrington approach, in contrast, is piecemeal.
None of this means, however, that Palestine is unimportant or that it is not desirable that the problem should be solved. Imagine for a moment that it were solved, in a manner that guaranteed Israel’s security (a mighty flight of the imagination, that, as we shall see; but let us make it, provisionally), and what would we have? Peace in the interminable Arab-Israeli conflict; peace in Lebanon; an end to a contentious issue that bedevils prosperity and sours relations; an end to embargoes on firms trading with Israel; reduced American military aid to Israel.
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