Friday March 10, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently declared that he hopes acting prime minister Ehud Olmert becomes the next Israeli Prime Minister.

This was truly the utterance of a foolish politician.
No foreign leader should poke their nose into the workings of a stable democracy.
Of course, Abbas was stating the obvious.
Olmert will certainly be the next Israeli prime minister but in making that politically unwise statement Abbas has achieved exactly the opposite of what he stated.

Israel's Labor Party is the ideal pro-peace partner for the Palestinians. Now Labor is perceived to have been stabbed in the back by the ruling Palestinians. So why vote for Labor? Labor will now lose electoral support.
On the other side of the spectrum, Likud has run with the Abbas statement saying: see, we told you, even Abbas realizes that Kadima is leftist.

Labor loses. Kadima loses. Even if Likud wins this round, they are losers.

So now I'm wondering.
Abbas probably does not want an agreement with Israel.
Is he smart enough to have done this all intentionally?
Nah ... no way.