Unilateral "Peace" in Israel?

Israel's plan to unilaterally impose borders if there is no agreement appears to be the only option available given the position of Hamas still tacitly committed to retaking all of old Palestine. And there continued support of suicide bombings seems to rule out any direct negotiation. Abbas' position is weak, being basically little more than a middle man. This sure makes Arafat's intransigence loom larger than ever. Did he kill off a viable Palestinian state?
I have to say that Bush's reference to a mutual final agreement left the door open, but his help after basically giving Israel a green light for the past six years is too little too late.
WaPo

President Bush yesterday embraced Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's strategy of withdrawing from isolated Jewish settlements on the West Bank and unilaterally imposing final borders over Palestinian objections if he cannot negotiate a peace plan with their leaders.


Welcoming Olmert to the White House for the first time since his election eight weeks ago, Bush reserved judgment on the specifics of any "realignment" plan but called the concepts "bold ideas" and expressed satisfaction that the new Israeli leader would first make a serious attempt to craft an agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.


"While any final-status agreement will be only achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes and no party should prejudice the outcome of negotiations on a final-status agreement, the prime minister's ideas could be an important step toward the peace we both support," Bush said with Olmert at his side in the East Room.