Volume 48, Number 10 · June 21, 2001
Reflections on the Mitchell Report
By Brian Urquhart
The Mitchell Report on Israeli–Palestinian Violence, issued on May 21, is as sensible, evenhanded, and unjudgmental as such a report can be. Its recommendations—basically that the Palestinians should stop terrorism, the Israelis should freeze all settlement activity, and both sides should renounce violence and return to security cooperation and the peace process as soon as possible—are modest. Its language is tactful, but carries important messages:
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