In its June 19 edition, the New York Times runs a column by Tom Friedman about his own plan for resumption of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Friedman's pretentions go well beyond a columnist's wisdom and opinions about current affairs. He goes a big step further and fancies himself as a super-diplomat capable of cutting the Gordian knot to end the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With peace talks in limbo, Friedman proposes that the UN, the U.S., Israel and the Palestinians pick up the pieces by going back to the UN's two-state partition plan of 1947, which recommended carving up Palestine under the British Mandate into two states -- one "Arab" and the other "Jewish." To bring the 1947 resolution up to date, Friedman would condition peace talks on President Obama's formula -- based on the 1949 armistice lines that lasted until 1967, with mutually agreed land swaps. He also would have the UN recognize Palestinian statehood and membership in the UN. Finally, the updated UN resolution would call for....
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