04 April 2007
Back to the Future in Palestine
The Bush Administration is reverting to the style of previous Presidential strategies for resolving the Middle East (i.e. Israeli-Palestinian) issue, according to Helene Cooper in the April 1, 2007 New York Times. If so, the solution still requires the enlistment of other Arab nations in it. For over two years, those countries have benefited from the high market price of oil without devoting its bounty to the use of peaceful tactics in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The propensity of Islam to adopt violent responses to perceived inequities, lamented by Tawfik Hamid in the Wall Street Journal of April 3, 2007, has translated into support for terrorist enemies of Israel (and the West) rather than practical subsidization of Palestinian economic and social development.
The West is already paying the cost of the Arab oil bounty, and should exert some pressure on them as to its use. Those proceeds could be partially devoted to resolving the major cause of acrimony between the Middle East and the West. After all, Global Warming will force us to put an end to that bounty eventually. Why not use the liquidity it makes possible in the meantime to relieve a political pressure point in world affairs?
The Bush Administration is reverting to the style of previous Presidential strategies for resolving the Middle East (i.e. Israeli-Palestinian) issue, according to Helene Cooper in the April 1, 2007 New York Times. If so, the solution still requires the enlistment of other Arab nations in it. For over two years, those countries have benefited from the high market price of oil without devoting its bounty to the use of peaceful tactics in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The propensity of Islam to adopt violent responses to perceived inequities, lamented by Tawfik Hamid in the Wall Street Journal of April 3, 2007, has translated into support for terrorist enemies of Israel (and the West) rather than practical subsidization of Palestinian economic and social development.
The West is already paying the cost of the Arab oil bounty, and should exert some pressure on them as to its use. Those proceeds could be partially devoted to resolving the major cause of acrimony between the Middle East and the West. After all, Global Warming will force us to put an end to that bounty eventually. Why not use the liquidity it makes possible in the meantime to relieve a political pressure point in world affairs?
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