re: #6 Charles

Charles, I beg to differ and do believe this story. Here are two articles I found that are not from the right wing:

Israeli officials speak of ‘phased’ Jordan Valley presence

Israel’s presence in the Jordan Valley under a peace agreement would be “phased,” Israel’s U.S. ambassador told an audience of Muslim and Arab Americans. […]

The Obama administration has raised the issue of backing a phased Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley as part of an incentives package to get Netanyahu to revive a partial settlement freeze in the West Bank.

Israeli presence in Jordan valley could be flexible

Israel’s insistence on maintaining a presence on the eastern border of a future Palestinian state could be reviewed over time, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Israeli administration came up with this idea, rather than it being some kind of Obama plan.