quote: BOTH sides are stuck in a hole; both seem bent on digging deeper. Since Palestinians abducted an Israeli soldier nearly a fortnight ago, the Israelis have thrown caution to the wind in their effort to rescue him. Their actions have been increasingly disproportionate—and look no more likely to win the hapless Corporal Gilad Shalit's release....
<You should know better than to post an entire copyrighted article, so I feel obliged to remove the article's content beyond what The Economist makes available without a subscription. --PJ>
[ July 11, 2006, 10:49 PM: Message edited by: Papa Janitor ]
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
*sigh* As if it were only Hamas who has done so much to prove there is no Palestinian partner.
Geepers, what was that guy's name who led the Palestinians for such a long time? Died recently? It's on the tip of my tongue...
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Why isn't the default plan to return to Jordan whatever piece of the West Bank isn't going to stay part of Israel. They Heights went back to Syria, the Sinai to Egypt.
Posted by Pelegius (Member # 7868) on :
Rakeesh, Yasser Arafat, who was almost universaly believed to be a roadblock to peace during his lifetime, but will probably be remembered as a great and pragmatic leader, thanks to how bad his successors are. He was, at least, a secular Arab married to a Christian rather than an Islamist.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
For anyone trying to get access to Economist articles, you can either use bugmenot.com or my own personal login: jharr@depauw.edu - password: 12345
I give this out to everyone, since I'm freeriding off my university library's subscription.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Yeah, so it's not as though Palestinian leadership has only started being chronically disingenuous about peace efforts after Hamas's political victory.
Posted by Baron Samedi (Member # 9175) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pelegius: (subscription required so I will post it all here)
Oh, that reminds me. Has anyone heard that new Gnarls Barkley CD? You'd have to pay for it on iTunes, so I'll just upload my copy to the Hatrack server.