1.   Among that juxtaposition of unfriendly neighbors were India and Pakistan, Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel and the Palestinian entity, and Iran and Iraq.

2.   Barak, like Netanyahu, wants Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, a majority of West Bank settlements to stay under Israeli control and a demilitarized Palestinian entity.

3.   But here in Ramallah, in effect the capital of the Palestinian entity, residents were furiously getting ready for a siege.

4.   But that left open the notion of a demilitarized Palestinian entity.

5.   He has said he thinks it is backwards to give up land before discussing the final borders of the Palestinian entity.

6.   He has hoped to move Hamas from terror to the politics of the new Palestinian entity.

7.   If carried out, the agreement could transform the nature of the Palestinian entity, making it larger and more autonomous.

8.   In four meetings with his ministers in the last two weeks, Barak has led a volatile philosophical discussion on the future relationship between Israel and the Palestinian entity.

9.   It is possible that Israel would be able to strike separate peace deals with three separate Palestinian entities in ways it could not achieve working with Arafat.

10.   Netanyahu knows that if there is an agreement, it will create what he calls a Palestinian entity and what the world will correctly call a Palestinian state.