Tuesday November 16, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

The US is very happy about Israel's decision to halt settlement construction for 90 days.

But there are some real obstacles - on both sides.

The Arab League made a public statement that they do not believe that a 90 day moratorium would be well received either by Palestinian leadership or by Arab leadership or by the Arab League.

Arab leadership is signaling that stopping settlement building for 90 days is not going to have a real positive impact on real the peace process.

In Israel it will be very difficult to enforce the government's narrowly supported decision to stop building. Actually, if it was hard for Israel to police the building during the previous moratorium, this time it will be nearly impossible. There are not enough inspectors and there will be numerous protests preventing army forces from supporting the inspectors.

And you know what? The United States is oblivious to it all.

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