They only worry about a few Israelies getting injured or killed by homemade very weak missiles being fired from Palestinian terratory. They care not how many arabs, foreign peacemakers die each day by accurate
hi tech Israeli weapons of mass destruction. Its a moral dump in US and Israeli politics these days.
Israel is the tail that wags the big DOG (US).... Our sniveling politicians lick there boots for scraps to get elected.
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The final report of the Winograd Commission, the Israeli body investigating the conduct of the Lebanon war, is due later this month. Will Olmert survive it?
So far Olmert seems to have dodged quite a few bullets. At this point most analysts think he has survived this. There doesn't seem to be a great appetite on [Labor Party leader Ehud] Barak's part to leave the coalition. But we'll have to see how severe the report will be.
Any chance of another try at a unity government deal between Hamas and Fatah?
There are always periodic mentions of it. President Abbas gave a speech recently that was more conciliatory. [Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled] Meshaal hinted at early elections. Both are making fairly favorable noises. But Abbas has no serious desire for talks. The reason the [2006] Mecca agreement [between Fatah and Hamas] collapsed had very little to do with ideology. It's about who controls security, who controls the PLO. Until both sides are ready to have honest power sharing, all these talks will be aimed at placating public opinion.
Can you see any scenario in which a peace agreement is reached by the end of Bush's term, as all the parties claim they want?
It is possible—all three actors see real merits because of their respective weaknesses. A final-status agreement—that's the least likely. But there are fallbacks. One could be a vaguer but significant document of understanding, a doctrine for the future that would lay out the parameters of an agreement. I can see different scenarios that could be pointed to as positive.
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