Monday November 19, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Just one week before the Annapolis Conference is scheduled to begin and things are definitely out of order.
On Friday Condi Rice postponed her visit to the Middle East.
Had the secretary of state made the trip as planned, she might have been able to avert this backslide.

Negotiations about a joint peace statement between Israelis and the Palestinians have come to a standstill.
Insiders are saying that the Palestinians want to start back at the very beginning.
Insiders are saying that the Palestinians withdrew on every agreement.

As it is the Conference is scheduled to last only one day.
As it is the Conference is to serve only as a forum for the reading of prepared statements, not for real negotiating - there is no time for anything more substantial.

I think that the Palestinians are engaged in tactical maneuvers.
I think that the Palestinians are hoping that the 40 plus nations in attendance will put pressure on the United States to pressure Israel to make even more and very serious concessions.
That's what I think.

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