How Not to Make Peace -Hussein Agha & Robert Malley
Basic issues should first be addressed. Among them are the effectiveness of U.S. mediation, the wisdom and realism of seeking a comprehensive, across-the-board settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or even the centrality of that conflict to U.S. interests and the benefits that would accrue to America from its resolution.
Raising such questions is preferable to a headfirst rush to follow costly familiar patterns and to seek the comforting embrace of ideas that have been tried but never worked or that were never tried but can no longer work.
(New York Review of Books)
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Basic issues should first be addressed. Among them are the effectiveness of U.S. mediation, the wisdom and realism of seeking a comprehensive, across-the-board settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or even the centrality of that conflict to U.S. interests and the benefits that would accrue to America from its resolution.
Raising such questions is preferable to a headfirst rush to follow costly familiar patterns and to seek the comforting embrace of ideas that have been tried but never worked or that were never tried but can no longer work.
(New York Review of Books)
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