Bruce's MidEast Soundbites

Capturing the MidEast in short soundbites: poignant reflections by people who understand the complexities of the Middle East. My philosophy is: "less is more." You won't agree with everything that's here, but I'm confident you will find it interesting! Excepting the titles, my own comments are minimal. Instead I rely on news sources to string together what I hope is an interesting, politically challenging, non-partisan, non-ideological narrative.

Monday, March 05, 2007

"Bitter Fruit"

From Bad to Unthinkable - Mortimer B. Zuckerman

Hardly anyone in Israel thinks that if it decides to give up territory again, it would get peace in return. Tendering olive branches of the kind so often advocated by Israel's critics has borne nothing but bitter fruit.

Israel left Lebanon, and Hizbullah made war. Israel left Gaza to the Gazans and was rewarded with more rocket attacks.
(U.S. News & World Report)

1 comment:

LHwrites said...: Yeah, until something else changes, it does not appear that giving up land is what is most needed. Until the Palestinians focus on themselves, and other Arab groups focus on the Palestinians instead of Israel's existence, it appears that very little will matter there.; Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:23:00 AM