Such a plan would be the setting up of a regional headquarters charged with dealing with all aspects of the process during the next 12 months. This American headquarters for peace would deal with the security and military aspects, helping primarily to build up a Palestinian security mechanism; monitor the two sides’ implementation of their commitments on the ground (including the settlement freeze and the struggle against the armed militias); and ensure the continuity of the diplomatic negotiations while presenting bridging proposals, if necessary.

Excerpted from an article by Yossi Beilin, a former justice minister and the architect of the unofficial Geneva Initiative, in the January 9 issue of Haaretz