[white trash redneck]

Pretty clear.

[yoe]

"A road map to peace is a fine thing, but if it is based in denial and wishful thinking it will be rightly doomed."

I don't know why Condoleezza Rice feels there can be no renegotiation of this "roadmap to peace" as it is flawed and needs force behind the pretty words. I also find our stand with the United Nations in this matter embarrassing and a total waste of money, the taxpayers’ money. The United Nations, unencumbered by successes in their “humanitarian” efforts is hardly the forum for Peace in the Middle East.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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A long but worthwhile read.

[SJackson]

Thanks for posting.

[Alouette]

bump!

[Stultis]

By omission as much as by commission, the United States and other democracies have encouraged radical Palestinians and their supporters to cling to their dream of eliminating the Jewish state. They have acquiesced in and thereby promoted the separate and unequal treatment of Israel as a member state of the community of nations. They have truckled to, and pressured Israel to reach an accommodation with, the most radical elements among its adversaries, while subsidizing and turning a blind eye to the culture of violence in which generations of those adversaries have been raised.

This is a harsh indictment. Or would be, if it weren't true.