In this issue we present the New York Review of Books essay by Henry Siegman, the Director of the US/Middle East Project and former head of the American Jewish Congress (1978-94). Siegman, who served as a senior fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations from 1994 to 2006, addresses questions about the Annapolis Palestine-Israel “peace” conference that were raised by readers of an earlier piece in the New York Review of Books that was addressed to President Bush and signed by several Middle East experts and policy analysts.

If Annapolis fails, it will be because of Israel’s rejection of the single most central condition for success: full disclosure of its definition of viable Palestinian statehood. Olmert has already reneged on his earlier endorsement of Rice’s insistence that the meeting must produce a joint statement outlining a permanent status agreement to avoid becoming a meaningless photo op, and it remains unlikely that any meaningful joint declaration can be reached.

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