Indeed, the fate of many of the Commission's existing functions, procedures and working groups would be left to the Council to endorse, renew or consider obsolete.

When the media and the authorities spend years sowing values that society isn't ready to accept, explaining to society that it's too backward, Trump wins.

Of course, to put on the table a comprehensive settlement plan that addresses all of the final status issues, with compromises that all sides could be persuaded and pressured to accept, would require statesmanship.

8.5 As to the remaining claims of violations of articles 9, paragraph 1, and 14, paragraphs 1, 2, 3 (a), (b), (d), (e), and 5, and article 19, the Committee considers these claims are sufficiently substantiated and finds no other bar to their admissibility.