Southern discomfort, again

Arnold/Frimet Roth
This Ongoing War: A Blog
15 September '10

True, there are discussions going on between top-tier political leadership on the Israeli and Palestinian Arab sides. Discussions calculated, according to their US sponsors, to lead to peace via a serious attempt to grapple, as Hilary Rodham Clinton put it this morning "with the core issues that can only be resolved through face to face negotiations". The highly problematic nature of Israel negotiating with a PA echelon that, at best, speaks for half or less of the Palestinian Arabs does not need reiterating here. Nor does a long list of other aspects of the Abbas regime's constant recourse to the ugliest forms of incitement against Israelis, incitement against Israel and incitement against the kind of mutually-painful compromises essential to any progress towards peaceful co-existence.

But there is also war - an ongoing war. a shooting war.

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