Comments on: The Audacity Of Peace In The Middle East http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-audacity-of-peace-in-the-middle-east/ Blogging Lebanon since 2005 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:37:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: moe http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-audacity-of-peace-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-162381 moe Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:19:14 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/?p=1625#comment-162381 Mustapha when are you gonna blog back? Mustapha
when are you gonna blog back?

]]> By: aruf http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-audacity-of-peace-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-161298 aruf Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:29:55 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/?p=1625#comment-161298 Hello Mustapha! Allow me to add one more factor we need for successful Middle East peace prosses - we alsow need a palestinian leadership with a mandat to make peace. Now we have a lot of palestinian factions with different seeing and understanding of this. We need strong leaders with 100% mandat for peacemaking. I think that Barak propasals (if there were any) were last minute try to solve the inner problems of his goverment and it was hard to expect that someone take them seriously. Hello Mustapha!
Allow me to add one more factor we need for successful Middle East peace prosses – we alsow need a palestinian leadership with a mandat to make peace. Now we have a lot of palestinian factions with different seeing and understanding of this.
We need strong leaders with 100% mandat for peacemaking. I think that Barak propasals (if there were any) were last minute try to solve the inner problems of his goverment and it was hard to expect that someone take them seriously.

]]> By: Gitanjali http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-audacity-of-peace-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-156783 Gitanjali Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:29:49 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/?p=1625#comment-156783 Hello Mustapha, This is my first of many posts on your blog. I hope to read more of your insights in the coming months. Well let me just say that I agree with your call for hope in the regions peace process. As long as we live we must strive towards solutions. Having said that I must warn you that I have written an article analyzing the 3 different obstacles currently in the path of a comprehensive peace process (namely Hamas-Fatah neotiations, Israeli elections and the new US administration's policy in the ME)and recent developments in all 3 do not look promising. http://www.strategicforesight.com/is_no_news_2009.htm As for the 'axis of evil' I think that recent developments in Iran namely: progress in developing nuclear enriched uranium and the prices of oil dropping by almost 2/3rds show that the situation can either escalate or de-escalate. Let's hope for the best. Hello Mustapha, This is my first of many posts on your blog. I hope to read more of your insights in the coming months.

Well let me just say that I agree with your call for hope in the regions peace process. As long as we live we must strive towards solutions.

Having said that I must warn you that I have written an article analyzing the 3 different obstacles currently in the path of a comprehensive peace process (namely Hamas-Fatah neotiations, Israeli elections and the new US administration’s policy in the ME)and recent developments in all 3 do not look promising. http://www.strategicforesight.com/is_no_news_2009.htm

As for the ‘axis of evil’ I think that recent developments in Iran namely: progress in developing nuclear enriched uranium and the prices of oil dropping by almost 2/3rds show that the situation can either escalate or de-escalate. Let’s hope for the best.

]]> By: VOR http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-audacity-of-peace-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-148881 VOR Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:18:39 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/?p=1625#comment-148881 Ehud Barak, Israel's PM in 2000 was willing to give a part of jerusalem to the palestinians in exchange for a comprehensive peace in the region. Unfortunately, it was shot down by Arafat and the arabs at the time as not being enough! I think there is a lot of hypocrisy going on among all the parties to this conflict and perhaps the only approach at this point is to accept the realities on the ground, and work to move things forward a small step at a time, by trying to reach some kind of "basic" agreement that everyone can accept and which would lay the framework for further talks. The dreams of a comprehensive peace has proven to be recipes for more failures. Ehud Barak, Israel’s PM in 2000 was willing to give a part of jerusalem to the palestinians in exchange for a comprehensive peace in the region. Unfortunately, it was shot down by Arafat and the arabs at the time as not being enough! I think there is a lot of hypocrisy going on among all the parties to this conflict and perhaps the only approach at this point is to accept the realities on the ground, and work to move things forward a small step at a time, by trying to reach some kind of “basic” agreement that everyone can accept and which would lay the framework for further talks. The dreams of a comprehensive peace has proven to be recipes for more failures.

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