Thursday, July 26, 2007

New Life For Mideast Peace Process?

Captain's Quarters: New Life For Mideast Peace Process?

"Arab League envoys paid a historic visit to Israel on Wednesday to present a
plan calling for a comprehensive regional settlement, saying they were extending
'a hand of peace' on behalf of the Arab world.
The one-day visit by the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan marked the first time the 22-member group has sent representatives to Israel. The Arab League peace plan envisions full recognition of Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in
the 1967 Middle East war.
The visit highlights a dramatic change of direction for the Arab body, which actively pursued Israel's destruction after the Jewish state was created in 1948. The league refused to recognize Israel for decades afterward and suspended Egypt in 1979 for a decade after it become the first Arab state to make peace."


This sounds like a good move forward in the process. I don't know if Israel is going to be willing to give up land that it feels is important for its security though. In the long term I think that the trade will help Israel more than it will hurt it. The weapons of today and tomorrow are not going to be fired from the Golan Heights, but from hundreds of miles away. The weapons that Israel is and will be facing more of in the future are weapons of mass destruction. If giving back land can undermine the power of the groups that lie on its borders Israel wins. More so, the enemies of the state of Israel are not on its borders as much as they used to be. It would be better to focus on Iran, and allow Hamas to take Gaza, than to not be able to focus on Iran because of a war with Hamas.

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