Saturday June 25, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

The United States is eating crow in the Middle East. Again.

Ever since the October 2003 terror attack in Gaza that took the lives of 3 US security guards assigned to the Tel Aviv Embassy, the US Diplomatic community has boycotted going into Gaza.

Two and a half years later and no one has been tried in the case.
The United States is upset, disappointed and, yet...
US diplomats are now going into Gaza.

I have been to Gaza.
Gaza is a flat plain.
Americans Diplomats travel in convoys that are very obvious, sparkling clean and usually 3 vehicles-long. They are sitting ducks for roadside bombs and for terrorist snipers. And yet...
US diplomats make no move change their habits.

If US teams must meet with people from Gaza, meet them on the border.
Sending US diplomats back into Gaza is a big mistake.