Thursday, April 15, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Lee Smith: The Honest Broker - Robert Malley, a former Clinton official, says Hamas must be engaged - '...Malley and the ICG are understandably cautious, if not cagey, in their presentation and wording, but their main conclusion couldn't be clearer: Hamas is an essential partner if the United States wants to reach an agreement to create a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. "It's very simple," says Malley. "If you are going to have a historic agreement between the Palestinians and Israelis, it's difficult to do so with a counterpart that can't speak with one voice."...'