Sunday, December 7, 2003
There is much good sense in this Amir Taheri piece in the New York Post on the Geneva Accord. Here's one big difference I see between those advocating for the plan, and those against it, like Taheri. The critics talk about reality, the advocates talk about chasing ghosts. Read Taheri, from whom it's difficult to pull a representative quote.
New York Post - Geneva: A Blow To Peace
Arafat, who still pulls most of the strings on the Palestinian side, has responded with one of his classic "yes-but-no-maybe-perhaps-not-we-shall-see" equivocations. Other Arab political reaction has been dismissive or hostile.
The pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat branded the accord "a fruit of illusions." Arab News welcomed it as a means of weakening Ariel Sharon's hold on power. Egypt's state-owned media lashed out at the "betrayal" of the "right of return" to Israel for an estimated 5.5 million Palestinians.
Syria's state-owned media adopted a similar position. But they also saw the accord as a sign of Israel's weakening resolve. The newspaper Tishrin, the ruling Ba'ath Party's mouthpiece, claims that the accord shows that the Intifada is forcing the "Zionist enemy" to look for a way out of its "quagmire."...
