Think Again: Palestine
President Obama got the leaders of Israel and Palestine to shake hands this week. But a meeting in Midtown does not a Palestinian deal make. Here’s why.
The idea of "economic peace" suggests an economic conflict, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is certainly not that. Although economic issues do figure into Palestinian concerns, they are not nearly as important as addressing the rights of Palestinian refugees, terminating Israel's occupation of Palestinian land, and establishing a viable, independent, and sovereign Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital. To suggest that economics are ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Foreign Policy, Tom Friedman
I agree with Bronwen Maddox of the Times (London), that Israel's "democracy" is unable to produce a government capable of making the deals necessary to secure Israel's own future.