Friday April 9, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Two high level Obama administration officials had a sit down with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.

They were pitching a new approach to the Palestinian/Israeli negotiations.
According to Ignatius' column, the White House wants to launch a new plan.

The Administration is frustrated by "incrementalism."
Incrementalism is the idea that everything works in slow stages, one difficult idea at a time.
The Administration's new plan is to create a Palestinian/Israeli peace program based on the agreement almost attained at Camp David in 2000.

Actually the new plan simply appears to be a rehash of old plans, but we will know more when more details about the idea are floated.
The new plan sounds great in a vacuum i.e., in a meeting between two officials and a Washington Post columnist.
The real problems will emerge when real parties i.e., the Palestinians and Israelis are called in for comment and cooperation.

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