Rosner's Domain: Palestine can be just like the Solomon Islands!

One can't write an article titled Who Gets a State? without reffering to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. And indeed, Stephen Krasner of Stanford, in a post for the newly redesigned Foreign Affairs has something to say about our little problem:

Palestine faces an even bigger challenge to achieving sovereignty. Once again, however, the problems preventing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict relate not to population size or geography, but to the political interests of key actors. One crucial issue is security. Regardless of the demarcation of borders, Israel will reject any agreement that does not allow for Israeli or third-party authority over security operations inside Palestine. A recognized Palestinian state would thus not enjoy complete autonomy.
Several precedents exist for such nested security arrangements. France has responsibility for Monaco's defense, and France and Spain share responsibility for Andorra's. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, led by Australia, oversees the judiciary and police there, and the United States has full authority over the defense and security arrangements of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. In the nineteenth century, political entities whose security was controlled by outside actors would have been called protectorates; in the twenty-first century, they can be accepted as fully recognized sovereign states.

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