For Israel and Hamas, a Case for Accommodation
By Robert Malley, a former special assistant to President Bill Clinton for Arab-Israeli affairs, is Middle East program director at the International Crisis Group and Aaron David Miller, a former State Department Middle East negotiator, is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center (THE WASHINGTON POST, 15/05/06):
The formation of new governments in Palestine and Israel has produced the oddest of marriages -- one between mortal enemies who are also dependent on one another and who have more in common these days than either would care to admit. Whether this coincidence of interests overcomes their divergence in beliefs depends on how pragmatic they are prepared to be and on how others, particularly the United States, react.… Seguir leyendo »