"Shelf" agreement: false logic

Road Map to Nowhere -Daniel Levy

[T]he fundamentally flawed logic of the [Annapolis peace] process initiated last year is increasingly transparent. The logic of Annapolis - that an agreement on paper creates the conditions for its own implementation - is flawed.

Israel can no more end the violence by making a deal with Abbas than the U.S. can end the hostilities in Afghanistan by reaching an agreement with President Hamid Karzai. And that is why what we have now is a make-believe process.
The writer is director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation and director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation
(International Herald Tribune)
Photo: "Shelf Life" by James Hopkins