Three False Assumptions

Avigdor Lieberman, the enfant terrible of Israeli politics, says the ISG report and a lot of Middle East policy with respect to the Palestinian issue is based on three false assumptions.

"The peace process is based on three false basic assumptions: That the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the main fact of instability in the Middle East, that the conflict is territorial and not ideological, and that the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders will end the conflict."

Bad assumptions leads to bad policy. The fact that these assumptions have so often given rise to vain hopes should have lead to their burial a long time ago. Instead we are getting a resurrection. Couldn't they have at least waited until Easter?