Thursday, January 04, 2007

More Osloism   [Victor Davis Hanson]

Cf. this golden line from Brent Scowcroft's New York Times essay:

Arab leaders are now keen to resolve the 50-year-old dispute. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel may be as well.

Are we to believe that Bashir Assad, Ismail Haniya, Hassan Nasrallah-the surrounding triad of Arab interlocutors on the West Bank, in Lebanon, and Syria are "keen" to "resolve" the dispute, and a pliable Israeli leader like Olmert only "may be"?

But why should any Arab leader be "keen" to resolve the issue since it has been the most useful red herring for every illegitimate monarch, autocrat, and dictator who have used the Palestinians to rally Arab nationalism and thereby deflect attention from their own glaring failures?

01/04 09:13 PMShare