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| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:08 AM PDT Take a paragraph from a recent New York Times news story: The talks with the two leaders had been expected to begin last month but were delayed after Israel announced plans to build 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem, where the Palestinians hope to build their capital. The Palestinians and President Obama were furious at the announcement, made during a visit to Israel by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and the Americans made a number of demands of Israel aimed at restoring the negotiations Pretty straightforward? Israel antagonized the United States and the Palestinians by planning to build new... |
| And then the general walked into a bar ... Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:07 AM PDT A lot has been written the joke Gen. James Jones, the administration's national security advisor said at the dinner given by the Washington Institute for Middle East Policy last week. It's actually a very funny joke, but what bugged people, was the "ethnicizing" of the principles of the joke and making two of the parties "Jewish merchants." (I didn't know that Muslims aren't supposed to wear ties!) Still my bigger problem isn't that Gen Jones told the joke however clumsily he told it; it's his policies that bother me. Just One Minute plumbs the contents of the speech and points... |
| Why peace processes don't work Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:51 AM PDT Recently, Meryl, Daled Amos and I have both written about the perverse incentives and results of the peace procdess. Now Bret Stephens writes about how Peace Processes never work: But he misses a deeper point. Even as peace processes almost invariably fail between the warring parties, they also almost invariably succeed as political theater for the peace processors themselves. Kim Dae Jung, Arafat and Shimon Peres all burnished their prestige with Nobel Peace Prizes. President Obama won one pre-emptively. And Mr. Clinton still basks in an ill-founded reputation as a peacemaker. Ironically, the only real peace he ever achieved, in... |
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