Today the big news out of the Middle East is that the Hamas, and moderate Fatah parties have agreed on a plan that implicitly recognizes Israel. This comes after months of sanctions from the western world that have insisted that Palestine recognizes Israel's existence.
Surprisingly, the deal also calls on militants to limit their attacks to areas captured by Israel doing the 1967 war. Not sure what this means exactly in the grand scheme of things, and chalk it up to the irrationality that's indicative of mideast foreign policy. (a peace plan that gives allowances for war). Nonetheless, this is a momentous occasion in Israel-Palestine relations. And big ups need to be shown to President Mahmoud Abbas who's been able to accomplish so much while working with nothing, including having a militant group upsur power from him in the past year or so. We'll be keeping an eye out.
PS: What is the US going to do now? Jumping into the middle of these talks and providing support and incentives for peace would dramatically help out our presence in the Middle East, but somehow I don't see it happening. When it comes to doing the wrong thing, we're geniuses, but when it comes to being positive we are incredibly lackadaisical...well, we are Americans after all.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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