A chance for peace?
What irony if the Saudis show the leadership on Palestine that the Americans have flatly refused to! One cannot believe that the Israelis, who have never seemed in the least bit interested in a just peace, will agree to it. The suggestion that the Saudis should appeal to the people is brilliant in my view. Let's see who the villains are. The Israelis have said all along that all they want is peaceful coexistence with their neighbours. Well, here it is. On a plate.Why is this important? Because no Palestinian leader can sell out his people. But the Arab world as a whole can sell out the Pals (it won't be the first time after all). And I think they will be willing to accept a state with the '67 borders, reparations instead of the right to return, a capital in East Jerusalem and our help to make them a viable state, which will be able to hunt down and punish anyone who perpetrates further violence against Israel: something that will no longer be justifiable as "resistance" (not that bombing buses full of civilians ever was justifiable).
Ehud Olmert has an opportunity to take a big step, to put his name in the history books. He strikes me as a small man, an underpowered man, not charismatic, not bold, not a thinker. But here it is. He can be the man who ended one of the gravest crises of our times, the man who brought peace to Israel. Have the balls for it, Ehud?
posted by Dr Zen @ 1:08 pm
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