Sunday, September 30, 2007

The "power of weakness"

A Ritual Move in a Virtual Process -Amir Oren

Abbas is a continuation of Arafat in his exploitation of the power of weakness.

The more Abbas is weakened, the more Rice is willing to give him, at Israel's expense, so he won't get lost entirely.

The result is a shelving of the staged approach at the heart of the "road map"...
(Ha'aretz)

1 comment:

LHwrites said...

True, but more complicated. They are looking to prop him up in the eyes of his people against Hamas. This may not be an intelligent doctrine, but it is what they believe at this time. I am not reading anything convincing to replace this strategy. I read that they should deal with none of them and just cut the power and services. Not really a page out of "how to win friends and influence people", and not clearly out of "how to win wars or terrorist conflicts". In fact, the problem may be that no one has a definitive idea what to do in these instances. If they do, a lot of countries could use their advice about now.