"Why are we pretending that there is a viable diplomatic process? You have got no parliament, you have got a PLO that is dead, and you have got a president whose term is expired. He has no authority to negotiate this agreement and certainly to implement it, even if he had the authority to negotiate it. What you have got to do is fix the Palestinian political system first."[Hat tip: My Right Word]
Nathan Brown, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University
Technorati Tag: Mideast Peace Talks.
2 comments:
the reason why the west bank has not had anouther election is because it is to big of a risk to have hamas win the elaction i completely repect your opion but i hope you under stand that isreal is going to do all they can to keep hamas out of power and the people of isreal safe just like in the states i am sure the U.S. would do all they can to keep they're people safe. i noticed that you are a political science professor and it just happends that i am interning at the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs and there web sight deals international law you should check out the web sight. here is a article that has do with isreal and palisitine peace talk. http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=582&PID=2225&IID=4724&TTL=Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People:_From_the_San_Remo_Conference_(1920)_to_the
The Palestinian Arab leaders are afraid of their own people. Negotiating with them is a waste of time.
They can't compromise because they don't have a mandate to do it and they can't deliver because they could never sell a peace deal at home.
Why bother going through the motions? There is no peace partner on the other side.
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