Comments on: The unilateral disengagement of the American titans of peace

By: Levi Kofman

Levi Kofman — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:36:04 +0000

That pretty much accurately sums up all their efforts and contributions in a nut shell. Did Shakespeare have a crystal ball?

By: Herbert Kaine

Herbert Kaine — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:26:40 +0000

Thank goodness, the "peace industry" which blights the area like pawn shops and liquor stores, is shrinking. At least pawn shops don't kill anyone. Thanks to the peace industry, we are further away from peace than at any time since 1948. It is time that the "peaceniks" wean themselves from 1st class flights, fancy rooms at the King David and American Colony Hotels, lectures where the speakers are well paid to hear their own voices, and enjoy the benefits of honest labor. Everyone else is cutting back, why should you be exempt?

By: Larry Snider

Larry Snider — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:03:17 +0000

It is higly sensible to look squarely at reality and recognize the great distance and complexity that today prevent two states and peace and for old American hands starting some years ago with Aaron David Miller to judge and act accordingly. Everyone wants/needs a second act in their careers. That said, it is not sufficient to view the mounting obstacles and surrender a goal that is still essential to the stability of the Middle East and the world. The Arab revolution, the Iranian nuclear threat, the US withdrawl from Iraq and Afghanistan and the ascension of Islam all require a new era of agreement between Israelis and Palestinians and the concerted effort of the US, the EU, Russia, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others to quell regional hostility and initiate a peace agreement that caps the well and opens the region to a most necessary period of shared prosperity.

By: Mildred Bilt

Mildred Bilt — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:17:21 +0000

Maybe the idea is a flop because od innumeracy. I count 3: Fatah, Israel and Hamas. Why am I so confused?

By: Desmond Tuck

Desmond Tuck — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:32:33 +0000

It's quite Zen to disengage from a mythical process. One must question the nature of the process you are disengaging from and whether there was ever really a peace process at all, like the tree that falls in the forest without you hearing it. The two-state solution was undermined from the beginning by a lack of Arab intent to abandon the one-state solution, evidenced by the incessant hate education in Arab schools, plus many other things. It's never all one-sided of course, but without an immediate let-up in self-defeating moves like the indoctrination of Arab kids to hate Jews the two-state solution was a dead duck from the start.

By: Desmond Tuck

Desmond Tuck — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:31:21 +0000

It's quite Zen to disengage from a mythical process. One must question the nature of the process you are disengaging from and whether there was ever really a peace process at all, like the tree that falls in the forest without you hearing it? The two-state solution was undermined from the beginning by a lack of Arab intent to abandon the one-state solution, evidenced by the incessant hate education in Arab schools, plus many other things. It's never all one-sided of course, but without an immediate let-up in self-defeating moves like the indoctrination of Arab kids to hate Jews the two-state solution was a dead duck from the start.

By: Ilan Toren

Ilan Toren — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:46:15 +0000

"a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

By: John Hill

John Hill — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:41:55 +0000

So a busload of Neville Chamberlains give up trying to get Nazis to sign meaningless pieces of paper and we are supposed to be saddened? This is GOOD news.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:48:58 +0000

Good to hear. Who needs em? At this stage it is clear to anyone who has an open mind that the Pal side is more interested in destroying Israel than having their own state. What will happen in the future is anyone's guess.

By: Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:05:55 +0000

Yeah, well (and admittedly, THIS explanation is far, FAR too SHORT–to have either validity OR profundity)–WHY beat your damn head against a friggin' WALL?