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Previously on The West Wing:

You're still here.

I'm still here.

We have no choice but to retaliate.

And blow the summit out of the water.

The President knows, right?

Knows what?

He has to bomb Palestinians.

I've got a guy who says he wants to come

to a peace table, and I've got a table.

What's the President doing, a summit?

He's already got a Noble Prize. What's he need a second one for?

LEO: Congress, the Joint Chiefs, the American Public,

your own staff, everyone

disagrees with your assessment of the situation.

Tell me how this ends, Leo.

We don't always know how it ends.

WOMAN: Israel cannot agree to attend a Summit

with Chairman Farad.

Chairman Farad, welcome.

I think we got ourselves a ball game.

Tell the general to hit the Ein Hawa camp near Damascus.

If you don't mind my saying so, sir,

I hope the President knows how lucky he is to have you.

I can't have them picking up any signals from you

that we disagree.

No, sir.

Ladies and gentlemen,

thank you for coming.

( applauding )

( applauding )

We will require a resolution that balances the needs of both

with respect for the national identities

and the religious beliefs of both.

But I'm telling you, there can be no lasting peace,

no regional stability without a strong secure Israel,

and there can be no lasting peace

without a sovereign, viable state for the Palestinians.

Good morning, let me give you a brief rundown

of what's happened so far at Camp David.

The Israeli and Palestinian delegations arrived at 8:15,

the parties convened at 10:20 for the opening session,

and the President will be meeting privately

with the Chairman and Prime Minister Zahavy at 12:00.

( shouting )

The Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs,

General Alexander, will make a statement,

after which he'll take questions.

General.

( clears throat )

Moments ago, FA-18 Hornets

off the Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf

struck the Ein Hawa terrorist training camp,

32 kilometers southwest of Damascus

in the kingdom of Syria.

Whether you choose to do this today or ten years from today,

you will face the same geography,

the same neighbors, the same ancient animosities.

More years of bloodshed and pain

will not change those facts.

The only path to a real and lasting peace

is through negotiation.

Toby. Sir.

The parties have agreed

to break into subgroups this afternoon,

after Chairman Farad,

Prime Minister Zahavy and President Bartlett

meet to agree on topics of discussion.

Excuse me, Toby, if I may.

Uh, you'll be hearing this news shortly,

but our FBI has identified the group responsible

for the deaths of Americans in Gaza,

and we've launched an attack on their camp in Syria.

Gentlemen, if you would

join me on the Aspen Terrace at noon.

Thank you.

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TOBY: No, no, no, no, no, no.

WILL: They're not getting Jerusalem.

We say that in our opening,

Farad's not going to be here long enough

to unpack his toothbrush.

Go back to your opening list, again.

Farad gives security guarantees

and takes tangible action against Hamas.

And he ain't getting Jerusalem.

Enough with Jerusalem. Kate?

Israel allows the Palestinians

to form a viable, sovereign state in the territories.

We need to discuss the right of return....

We aren't going to get a deal on refugees.

They have to go somewhere.

There's room in Montana.

They can rent a cabin and

try to secede from the Union.

I got flies or little gnats

or something.

We need something on Jerusalem.

So, do we finally have a draft?

No. Yes.

The Israelis aren't going to give up Jerusalem.

Palestinians aren't going to make

a deal without it.

We're back where we were last night?

Delegation's on their way.

We punt on Jerusalem this morning,

tackle it later, agreed?

Mr. Share-your-gum- with-everyone over here.

Yeah.

We need Leo up here.

HAFFLEY ( on TV ): This President

has a solemn duty to help the only true democracy

in the Middle East defend itself against murderers.

Murderers of Israelis, murderers of Americans, murderers of...

Josh lands in an hour.

CNN's got the Speaker on an endless loop,

like a Pink Floyd concert.

It's their way of punishing us

for cutting off access to Camp David.

Natives restless?

There me be a mutiny afoot.

I heard a couple of them plotting to throw

our Mr. Coffees into the Potomac.

Speaker's on his way over.

Doubt he'll miss the cameras on his way in or his way out.

You were looking for me?

We're losing the media war.

I want us on the morning shows, Crossfire, Dateline.

Book This Old House if we can figure out an angle.

Who goes?

You, me, the Assistant Deputy

Secretary for Fishery Exploitation.

I don't care, we got to get our message out.

What is our message?

Shut up while we're trying to get them

stop killing each other.

FARAD: Mr. President, how are your children?

Your grandchildren?

Everything's well, I hope.

PRESIDENT: They're all very well.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Please.

Annie started high school last week.

I've ordered some tea.

Would anyone like something else?

Tea is fine. Thank you.

PRESIDENT: We need to agree on the topics of discussion

for the subgroups.

I've taken the liberty of coming up with a few things

to help us get started.

First, security for Israel after withdrawal from the territories.

We will need to maintain

a military presence in the Jordan Valley.

What sort of a message

this sends to my people about sovereignty?

Please, excuse me.

Discussion of these issues is for the subgroups.

We're only suggesting topics now.

Thank you.

Second, disposition of the settlements

and the land apportioned to them.

Third, right of return

for refugees.

No, there's no right of return, it's a claim of return.

Fourth, how the Palestinian Authority

will go about

dismantling terrorist groups.

Well, that's four topics.

I guess we can catch a double-feature now.

What about Jerusalem?

PRESIDENT: I thought we would put off

discussion of Jerusalem until after we've...

Israel will not give up control of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is central to our topics here.

PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, please!

Let's begin on the four issues, see if we can't...

We should start with Jerusalem.

If we can't resolve that,

why we spend time on the little things?

Little things?

Like denouncing terrorism,

the security of Israel?

Our capital must be Jerusalem.

Israel will not give up Jerusalem!

FARAD: Then why are you here?

Why are any of us here?

For once, Mr. Farad, you are right.

My apologies, Mr. President,

there is no progress to be made here.

I should have never accepted your invitation.

Please, sit back down, Eli.

No, we will not negotiate

sovereignty over the Temple Mount.

The Dome of the Rock stands on the site

where the Prophet Muhammad...

Stop it! Both of you!

Gentlemen, I have staked

my personal credibility

and the credibility of the United States

on suggesting, perhaps foolishly,

that the Israelis and the Palestinians

are reasonable people

who would like to at least try

to resolve their differences peacefully.

No one is going home after one hour of talks.

Now then, the subgroups

will begin on these four topics

after lunch.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

That went well, don't you think?

I've got you booked on Meet the Press,

Crossfire, and Taylor Reid.

Taylor Reid?

Nobody else'd do it.

Now that's good staff work.

Hey. Hey.

How's Donna?

She threw me out.

Her mother's driving her crazy

and her IRA boyfriend is plotting sedition,

or maybe it was seduction, probably both.

The dashing photojournalist?

Yeah. I think the professional term is "wanker."

Listen to you. Too much BBC.

Too much sauerbraten.

So, Leo's still down here?

Yeah, he's in his office.

Why isn't he up at Camp David?

( knocking on door )

So, where do you want me?

How's Donna?

Better.

May be able to fly in a few days.

Get up to Camp David.

Toby's climbing the walls.

Thinks the President's gonna give away the store.

When are you coming up?

Tomorrow maybe... the day after.

Everything okay?

Syrians are blowing enough gaskets to open

a new subcontract.

They want a resolution at the UN.

I'll stop by my apartment, pick up some clothes.

I'll drive straight up.

Margaret.

Have we heard anything from the President this morning?

No, sir. You want me to call Debbie?

No. Thanks.

C.J.: Good afternoon.

The President, the Prime Minister and the Chairman

met successfully this morning over coffee at Aspen

to finalize the topics for today's discussions.

Following lunch,

the delegations are breaking into subgroups

for this afternoon's talks on a variety

of mutually agreed upon subjects.

While it's too early to comment upon the direction and tenor

of the talks, I can tell you the luncheon buffet

of Maryland crab cakes, baked New England cod,

and Washington State apple brown betty was a hit

with all three delegations...

MAZAR: We must have a military presence in the Jordan Valley

to secure the borders.

MUKARAT: And how would that be different from the current occupation?

How are we a sovereign nation with IDF units in our streets?

MAZAR: We're going to have four million Palestinians living next door.

Israel could be cut in two

by tanks and artillery in about 15 minutes.

TOBY: What tanks, what artillery?

Even if every Palestinian man, woman and child

were given an Uzi, they'd be no match for your military.

And we have no intention of allowing that to change.

We must be allowed to defend ourselves.

Defend yourselves...

from who?

How about Hamas?

How are we expected to argue

there is no longer a reason to fight

when your Army is still there, exactly as before?

We cannot support a withdrawal from the territories

without assurances of our security.

And that, gentlemen, means our troops.

FARAD: A million Palestinians

were being expelled from their homes...

GALIT: Closer to 700,000.

And they weren't expelled,

they left after being urged to do so by...

We were being terrorized by Zionist troops

who were threatening to torch

every Arab village in the Galilee.

If you'd accepted the partition plan in '47,

not a single Palestinian would have...

I'm sorry, if I might interrupt...

Palestinians were being massacred.

Even Israeli historians admit this.

GALIT: It was war.

Only three years after the Holocaust.

If we had lost, there would have been

another wholesale slaughter of Jews.

KATE: Mr. Chairman, Madame Ambassador. Excuse me.

It may be more productive

to turn our attention to current problems

rather than the events of 50 years ago.

If there is room for a million Russian Jews in Israel,

why isn't there room for Palestinians

who simply wish to go home?

C.J.: Good afternoon.

Let me give you a brief rundown

of what's happened at Camp David this morning.

The delegations continued to meet

to discuss a number of issues.

They began at 10:00 and have now resumed again after lunch.

They will end early as it is Friday

and Prime Minister Zahavy

has invited the President and First Lady

to join the Israeli delegation for a Shabbat dinner.

I'll take a few questions.

REPORTERS: C.J.! C.J.!

Can you tell us what issues are being discussed

and is progress being made?

The talks include a broad range of issues.

And getting Israelis and Palestinians

to sit in a room together without a combat unit

or a trial attorney is progress.

Israelis'll turn over the territories,

but they want a military presence.

Palestinians don't get how it's gonna be their house

if it comes furnished with Israeli tanks.

You mentioned Germany?

We've had troops there for 50 years.

They ask how many British troops were still stationed

in Philadelphia after the American Revolution.

Plenty, but they were, you know...

shackled to the wall.

What about settlements?

KATE: Israelis are hinting

they'll abandon

everything in Gaza,

but they want 75%

of the West Bank settlements to remain.

Mukarat might go for it

if he gets Israeli land in exchange.

Sounds promising.

Yeah, only, Mukarat wants twice

as much area as the Israelis say

the settlements actually sit on.

ABBEY: How's he justifying that?

Says the Israelis took the best land,

wants two for one in exchange.

Dismantling terror?

The Israelis want Farad to denounce terrorism,

but in Arabic on Al Jazeera.

And they want more than just a promise

to disarm Hamas. They want it happen before they leave.

What do the Palestinians say?

That Farad's renounced terrorism.

Is that why he keeps calling

for that blood of a million martyrs

in all his speeches?

WILL: Maybe there's just a problem with the interpretion.

Right of return?

Farad wants the right of return

to apply to all Palestinians.

The Israeli's are understandably concerned

about three million Palestinians moving back in.

JOSH: Gallup did some polling in the West Bank.

Found that while refugees wanted the right to come back,

most wouldn't.

That's great, then they won't be disappointed.

ABBEY: Look at the bright side;

nobody shot anybody else the first day.

Okay. Good shot.

We start small.

See if we can get an agreement

on anything, no matter how inconsequential.

Something we can build on.

I'll continue to sit it out so I can jump in later.

But one small move is all we need

to get things rolling.

Thanks, guys.

TOBY: Thank you, Mr. President.

JOSH: How can I help?

PRESIDENT: Go with Toby and Will.

I think they need some positive reinforcement.

Sir, should we be here?

Glad you're back. Yeah.

Yes, sir.

( panting )

Mm...

Jed?

Where's Leo?

The Palestinians only became refugees

when our Arab neighbors refused to accept them.

800,000 Jews were similarly expelled from Arab nations.

600,000 of them

were resettled in Israel

without compensation from Arab countries.

Madam Ambassador, you bring up the issue of compensation.

Would Israel be prepared...?

We are not asking

for money. We want the right of return.

We can't allow three million refugees

the right to freely reenter.

Of course not.

Since the 19th century, Zionist leaders

have advocated a transfer of Arabs out of Palestine.

We cannot accept an unlimited right of immigration.

Perhaps we should take a break.

GALIT: If the Arab population had not been uprooted,

no Jewish state could have resisted.

So it was all right for Palestine

to be cleansed of its native population

to establish a Jewish state?

We are prepared to sacrifice,

but not to formalize our dispossession.

Excuse me.

An abrupt removal of our forces

from the territories would create a power vacuum.

How are we to prevent rocket attacks

from Palestinian-controlled areas?

It will be our responsibility

to gain control over our militants.

We've tried that before.

You've never given us enough time

to assert ourselves

before you come rushing back in with your tanks.

It's almost 4:00 and we had asked to end early

this evening for Kabalat Shabbat.

Right. Why don't we meet

back here tomorrow morning at 10:00?

Yeah, thank you.

They've done everything in their power

to undermine moderate leadership.

Don't they understand

that when they blow up leaders of Hamas with bombs,

and bulldoze Palestinian homes, they only make them stronger?

Boys and girls,

they no longer want to be doctors,

teachers, engineers.

Now they all want to be martyrs.

PRESIDENT: So, there's an opening on compensation for refugees.

KATE: Maybe,

but Israel's not gonna agree to an unlimited right of return.

There might be a pitch for most of them going

to the new Palestinian state and

Israel agreeing to take in a few.

Something like the 9% who told Gallup

they might want to go.

Okay, work on that. Toby?

Not much on security. The Israelis

aren't ready to leave a West Bank

that isn't protected militarily.

And we're still far apart

on any kind of land swap for the settlements.

Mukarat's sticking to 10%.

Israelis are saying 3%.

Any ideas on how

to break the logjam?

JOSH: Too bad Congress isn't here.

They'd just cook the books

and hold a press conference.

Mr. President, you should get ready for dinner.

Okay.

We need some suggested solutions

on security and settlements.

That's tonight's homework.

Okay. Rosebud after dinner.

We solve world peace.

How's it going?

Yeah.

Are you going to talk to him?

Somebody better do something

or this time next week,

we're gonna be the ones

who lose our right to return.

( speaks Arabic )

Allaahu Akbar. Allaahu Akbar.

( praying in Arabic )

Allaahu Akbar. Allaahu Akbar.

Allaahu Akbar.

GROUP: Allaahu Akbar.

( chanting in Arabic )

( speaking Hebrew )

ALL: Amen.

Shabbat shalom.

ALL: Shabbat shalom.

MAN: Allaahu Akbar.

GROUP: Allaahu Akbar.

MAN: Allaahu Akbar.

GROUP: Allaahu Akbar.

( speaking Hebrew )

Allaahu Akbar.

GROUP: Allaahu Akbar.

KATE: It's beautiful, isn't it?

The Salah.

They have to do it five times a day.

( speaking Hebrew )

ALL: Amen.

WOMAN: Shabbat shalom.

Allaahu Akbar.

GROUP: Allaahu Akbar.

KATE: The tragedy is the Palestinians and the Jews are so much alike.

CHARLIE How's that?

All through history,

no one's wanted either of them.

C.J.: Good morning.

Let me, as has become my custom,

give you a tantalizing yet maddeningly generic rundown

of what's gone on since yesterday afternoon's briefing.

The President had a bilateral meeting

with Prime Minister Zahavy.

I think this was sometime after 10:00 p.m.

This was at the Prime Minister's cabin.

The President then hosted Chairman Farad at his cabin.

I won't say whether they played the obligatory game of Twister.

TOBY: Fixed positions won't work.

JOSH: How long would they be there?

I don't know. Four years?

Farad's gonna hate it.

Zahavy's gonna hate it even more.

Do you have a better idea?

JOSH: Yeah. Wait till they die.

I'll be free the whole millennium.

TOBY: Two old paleo-nationalists

who've been clawing each others eyes out for 50 years.

They don't want a deal.

What are they going to do for fun,

swap recipes for Matzoh brei?

I hear the lawn bowling's great in Tel Aviv.

With human pins apparently.

LEO: How's it coming?

How ya doing? You look a little...

Those leftover taquitos Will found in here last night...

Anybody got an antacid,

or maybe an aunt who knows how to cook?

Keep it. I've got more back in the room.

So?

Kate has an idea on security.

Israelis pull out of the West Bank.

but get to keep troops in a fixed position

for three or four years.

After that, they fall back to Israel,

but get to keep some sort of early warning posts for monitoring.

Okay.

Excuse me?

I said okay.

Where were you for the last three hours?

Let's take it out for a walk.

Walking a dog is a perfect analogy.

Toby's not a fan.

Zahavy may go for it.

But every time we begin to get anywhere,

Mazar jumps in.

The Defense Minister?

Then split 'em up.

How're we supposed to do that?

I don't know.

You'll think of something.

MAZAR: I've always wanted to try skeet shooting.

You shoot often?

Yeah, you know, once or twice a week

when it's in season.

Here we are gentlemen.

So tell me, Toby, how exactly does this work?

Well, they hurl a couple clay pigeons,

we shoot 'em.

Unless they hurl the wrong direction.

Then we duck.

( Mazar laughs )

You know how to fire a gun, sir?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Ready, Mr. Minister?

Pull!

How long were you in the Army?

I still am.

Every Israeli citizen is in the reserves.

Your turn.

You're sure you know how to do this?

I know back in Israel

you play this game with Cobra gunships,

but I'm fine.

What?

You may not want to rest like this.

You have to stand you know, more firm.

Yeah, well, this is the way we do it in Brooklyn.

Pull.

Fixed positions in the West Bank for four years?

Maybe less

if things go well.

Then how many monitoring sites after?

Two or three.

So you can keep an eye on the Jordanian border

and the Palestinians.

Could be more than four years if that's what...

We would need a mechanism

to deal with emergency developments.

He'll do it?

Some version of it, yes, sir.

And Farad?

KATE: Farad'll be the last to sign on.

Mukarat will probably support it

if we can get him away from Farad.

Where are we on right of return?

Israelis won't do an unlimited right.

Farad is standing on principle.

I can work on him.

I think he likes me.

Josh, Will, get back in

with Zahavy before Toby has to start feeding the clay pigeons,

and get him to commit on security.

Okay, let's go.

We may just have our tennis match.

You don't think so?

We haven't gotten to the tough part.

We're making progress.

Yes, sir, you are

and that's laudable.

Laudable?

You make it sound like an honorarium

from some two-bit chiropractic college in Arizona.

When are you planning to discuss Jerusalem?

That'll be the last thing.

Because it's the only...

Damn it, don't you think I know that?!

I'll go see if I can get Galit

to give us a number on compensation.

Mr. Chairman, I know how difficult it would be

for you to even appear to be abandoning your principle.

But it's just not reasonable

to ask that the Israelis allow

an unlimited number of refugees to return.

I was born in the city of Safed.

Do you know Safed?

It's in the mountains of upper Galilee.

I was eight years old when the British left.

There were 52,000 Arabs in Safed,

only 1,300 Jews.

Within a month, the Haganah had taken over the city.

My older sister Amira was killed.

The body of my brother Aziz...

was found hanging from a burned Cyprus tree.

We fled to Syria,

lived in tents,

ate United Nations handouts and surplus American cheese.

I still remember the view of the valley

from the roof of our house,

the smell of the pomegranates...

the sound of children playing in our orchard.

The home of my father, of my aunts, my uncles,

they are now art galleries and bed-and-breakfasts.

Will I get to go home, Ms. Harper?

No, sir, probably not.

But is that worth not having any home at all?

You get Farad to go along on right of return?

I think it's doable.

I'm taking her with me next time I buy a car.

That leaves us with the big one.

Any chance we can just give Jerusalem to the Swiss?

JOSH: So, who goes in?

I do.

PRESIDENT: Shared sovereignty of Jerusalem

is the only realistic approach.

No.

If anyone led you to believe that

we could agree to anything less... Mr. Chairman,

do you really want to see your people

oppressed for another generation?

Shared custody of the city and its Holy Sites is...

Why do you continue to support Israel?

Hatred of America grows because of this.

And not just in the Muslim countries. I've done more

to support you and the Palestinian cause

than anyone who's ever sat in my chair.

The Haram al-Sharif, the Dome of the Rock,

stands on the site where the Prophet Muhammad

landed in his divine journey from Mecca to Jerusalem.

Mr. Chairman,

there isn't a single member of your delegation

who doesn't think turning down the U.N. offer

of a Palestinian homeland in 1947 was lunacy,

a colossal mistake.

Please...

do not make the same mistake today.

He's not gonna do it.

Farad's elevated being a victim into an art form.

What? Nothing.

Come on, you're not starting to buy what he's selling, too.

He's a terrorist.

With some legitimate grievances.

Please. What, now suddenly you're Jewish?

I don't remember seeing you at temple.

1938. Millions of men, women and children

running for their lives from gas chambers tried to seek refuge in

any country that would take them--

nobody would, including America.

So they settled in the middle of a region

that still believes in public stonings and harems?

Palestinians are the Jews of the Arab world.

Even with the bombs, Israel is the one place it's okay to be Jewish.

And here. German Jews

in the '20s were mighty comfortable.

Well, this isn't Germany.

This is America. Yeah, home of the KKK.

Where you and I work in the White House,

to make sure the Justice Department

rips their Jew-hating hoods off.

Bartlet got to Farad.

PRESIDENT: The general principle would be

that Arab areas are Palestinian and Jewish areas are Israeli.

Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall;

Palestinian sovereignty over the Haram.

There would have to be a firm commitment

from both parties not to excavate

under the Haram or behind the wall, of course.

You have kept us here for five days,

negotiating, cajoling us into things we didn't want to do.

But we have tried, struggled,

to find a common ground

because we value your friendship

and that of the United States.

( sighs ): But...

I have taken a solemn oath, before God and my people,

not to give up Jerusalem!

I told you that on the first day.

I told you, and yet you continued to talk and to talk.

You have not been listening.

Uh... Mr. President, my...

my right eye will fall out...

my right arm will fall off,

before I ever sign a document giving up Jerusalem!

Mr. Prime Minister, please listen.

No. There have been enough words, Mr. President.

We are going home.

Thank you.

( bird chirping )

TOBY: We go to Mukarat,

convince him...

to take something less than sovereignty

over the Arab sections of the city.

Something less, like what?

I don't know.

Some sort of custodial arrangement.

WILL: How about a floral arrangement-- "Best Wishes

for the 93rd Intifada." CHARLIE: State put off

the Israelis' departure till 8:00 in the morning.

What'd they tell them? That the state police

needed ten hours to secure the route.

PRESIDENT: Call C.J.,

tell her there'll be an announcement in the morning.

Yeah. Have we started working on a statement yet?

"A cycle that cannot be broken overnight.

A step toward... insert-your-favorite- platitude-here."

There's always "regional calamity."

PRESIDENT: All right, everyone...

let's all get a good night's sleep.

Good night, sir.

I'll have C.J. work on some postmortems,

get our side of the story out.

Maybe a one-on-one with Time or Newsweek?

They weren't ready.

Good night, Mr. President.

( kisses )

KATE: Cell phone service sucks up here.

Yeah, not many good spots.

This is usually one of them.

Who you trying to call at 2:00 in the morning?

Someone you hate, I hope.

Germany. It's morning over there already.

Your assistant doing better?

She may fly back on Wednesday.

It's a search for two freedoms.

For Israel, the freedom from terror;

for the Palestinians... freedom from Israel.

That's what Efraim Nachum called it.

His book on the Six-Day War is pretty...

What? Boring?

Overwritten?

Find Toby and Will.

I'll meet you at Aspen.

What?

Get Toby and Will!

After the Six-Day War, the Israelis offered

to give the U.N. diplomatic status

and immunities in the Holy Sites in Jerusalem.

So?

So if they were willing to do it in '67, why not now?

They give the Muslim Holy Sites the status

of diplomatic missions.

The Israelis can keep all the sovereignty they want, they still can't

enter without permission from

the Palestinians. So the Palestinians

would have a sovereign-like state

that was inviolable, like

a foreign embassy. Palestinians'll love it,

'cause it gives them the same custodial status over the Haram

that the Saudis have over sites like Mecca, Medina.

There's only one catch.

When the Israelis offered it the first time,

they wanted peacekeepers as part of the deal,

in Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank.

The U.N. will cough up peacekeepers

if it will solve the Middle East crisis.

It can't be the U.N.

U.N. peacekeepers have no credibility

with the Israelis-- they let Egypt attack Israel

through the Sinai in '67.

It's gonna have to be us.

How many troops?

Israelis have around 20,000

in the West Bank and Gaza right now. The Europeans

will probably pitch in, maybe contribute ten percent.

18,000 American troops patrolling the PLO's backyard?

Where the hell is Leo?

WILL: How are the other Arab nations gonna feel about this?

King of Jordan will put up with some new neighbors.

It'll give him peace and quiet in his own backyard.

JOSH: And folks in the West Bank are just gonna roll out

the welcome mat for GI Joe when he climbs out of his Humvee

in Ramallah?

Well, if we're gonna stay up all night, I'm gonna order

some coffee and get dressed.

JOSH: Is this really our job?

Sending American teenagers into that breach?

What're we talking about?

About putting an American peacekeeping force

in the territories.

And we think that's a goodidea?

Some of us do. The Palestinians

want the Israelis out of the territories, and the Israelis

don't want to leave the Palestinians there alone.

They'll need an outside force to secure the borders,

to ensure a smooth transition.

You think Congress is gonna authorize that? They've been asking

for a show of force. We'd be throwing ourselves

into a conflict we don't understand.

It'd give religious fanatics even more to scream about.

Not to mention political capital, economic costs.

It shouldn't be our job, but no one else can do it.

Could I speak to you privately for a moment?

I can't support this decision.

For a short period we may be welcome,

but what happens when we have to start kicking in doors,

declare martial law, enforce curfews?

Once they establish a rule of law

and their economy settles down, they'll be fine.

This isn't a romp in the desert.

You're committing American lives

to something that may go on for decades.

( shouting ): How are we not involved n...

We can't keep having this argument.

No, sir, we can't.

If my counsel is no longer of use to you, perhaps...

So if I disagree with your advice, you have to threaten me?

This is your own League of Nations...

and it'll ruin you, like it ruined Wilson.

Okay.

I'll need your successor in place before you leave.

I'll get you some names. Yeah.

JOSH: Is everything all right?

Yeah.

He's still gonna do it?

You should get back in there.

Find out what the President...

You sure you're okay?

I just need some air.

Go.

Go.

( water rushing )

( water rushing )

( gasping, panting )

( quiet, sustained grunt )

( panting )

( breathing slows )

( grunting, gasping )

( panting )

( continues panting )

Just a second, Mr. President. Thank you.

Zahavy... ( speaks Hebrew )

Good morning, Mr. Prime Minister.

Mr. President.

Thank you for seeing me.

Of course.

Can we take a walk?

Good morning, everybody.

If you could settle down, please.

I'm pleased to announce that this afternoon at 2:00

Prime Minister Zahavy, Chairman Farad

and President Bartlet will hold a joint press conference

( reporters shouting ) in the East Room to describe a tentative accord

that's been reached between the parties.

WILL: Congress won't approve it.

JOSH: They don't have to approve it--

we're not declaring war, we're not even trying to build

one of those aquatic history museums.

They still have to fund it.

It'll never get that far-- Farad'll find some way

to trip over his own shoes

before we ever get a chance to resole 'em.

No round-trip on Marine One?

KATE: Yeah, what a shame.

You talk to Leo this morning?

I couldn't find him. He must've headed back early.

Any idea how he wants us to handle this?

No. I'll try calling him.

( dialing )

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