while i disagree with Haaretz, I point with pride to the fact that the only place in the middle east where a newspaper would have the courage to speak what they really believe, without pandering to the lowest common denominator is Israel.
Until you see similar freedom in the Arab world, no matter what you, JohnM, CobaltBlue, and others say, you cannot and will not have any prospect of peace.
The middle east requires two pre conditions for peace.
Freedom for the populace is required to create the right internal atmosphere.
Those outside influences, which are strongly anti-peace, need to be silenced.
Until those two things happen, we will all continue to see attempts at terror on one side and retaliation on the other side.
Having said that, I strongly believe that an immediate and rapid deployment of a security fence around the West Bank, will dramatically reduce the violence and give the US the cover it needs to attack and remove Iraq.
I am also not altogether unconvinced that if Syria refuses to play ball with the US, it may find itself in a conflict
which may result in the US having access to a large part of the Iraqi border without any necessity for involving any other Arab country. |
