In many states education unions and bureaucrats are waging a de facto war against charter schools.
First, a unilaterally declared Palestinian state will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
And so any state formed outside the framework of a peace treaty will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
That is, Obama is unwilling to commit himself to not recognizing a Palestinian state that will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Since it would not be established in the framework of a peace treaty with Israel, and since its leaders reject Israel's right to exist, "Palestine" would be born in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Ironically, at the same time Clinton was attacking Israel's leader for killing the peace process, Abbas was at the UN asking the Security Council to accept as a full member an independent Palestine in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Although war is seldom declared, de facto wars still occur and the belligerents are often non-states.
Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after the first Chechen war, leaving it de-facto independent and largely lawless, but then rolled back three years later following apartment building explosions in Moscow and other cities blamed on the rebels.
Indeed, the fact that there is no Palestinian leader willing to recognize Israel's right to exist makes clear that if a Palestinian state is established in Judea and Samaria - in addition to the de facto Palestinian state in Gaza - that state will be in state of war with Israel.
Before such a de facto peace can evolve, we may yet have to respond to a Persian Gulf war-like conflict provoked by Saddam Hussein.
If Israel were more vulnerable, the de facto Palestinian terror state would not be weighing whether or not to begin a new terror war as its leaders from Fatah and Hamas are doing today.
In 1991 Syria was determined to make Lebanon a de facto province, and Washington let that happen in return for Syria's support in the Gulf war.
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