Temper Whatever Optimism You Had
This is what we are trying to deal with in the Palestinian issue. How can peace be made with this sort of start? Here is a man who represent the moderate Palestinians - yes, there are moderates who realize that Israel is not going away and Muhammad cannot return to the house that Menachima and his family have live in for 40 years now - and many of his people want to do him the way the Egyptians did Sadat for recognizing Israel and dealing with us. The Palestinian moderates do not run the show. Hamas and Islamic Jihad do. (This is a microcosm of the larger struggle within Islam all over the world.) Civil war may be coming because it is the only way this deep chasm will be overcome - its increasingly clear that it is not going to be bridged peacefully. Could be some lessons here for Iraq, as well. These are two points on which I would love to be wrong. Send me some reasons to reconsider and restore my short-lived optimism on this front.