He quotes Napoleon's memoirs to show how deeply the Frenchman admired Washington and how utterly baffled he was by his voluntary relinquishment of power.
By moving to increase rentals on concessions and significantly tighten rules on the relinquishment of leases, the turnover of undeveloped fields is likely to increase.
Change requires a relinquishment of power by agencies and legislators and presidents, and somebody electable has to limit the amount of costs unelected agency personnel inflict.
In the West, Arab denunciations of the settlements are commonly taken to signify that the conflict is no longer about Israel's existence but only its control of the "occupied territories, " relinquishment of which would displace only 120, 000 or so Jewish settlers.
Relinquishment of this territory is a sensitive military and political issue not just in Israel but also in the United States, because Israel expects that compensatory security arrangements will include the deployment of American troops to the Golan as monitors or peacekeepers.