For those within America and the Arab world who continue to believe the US is an honest broker qualified to arbitrate a peace deal between Israel and the Arabs this piece by well respected scholar Avi Shlaim is a must read…. This piece should be manadatory reading if not memorizing for the Ramallah leadership.
( http://english.aljazeera.net/
Any one familiar with the “special” if not strange relationship between the US and Israel would be shocked with this title, but it is true. Israel and its Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and his foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman could not have better friends these days than Mahmud Abbas, Saeb Erekat, Yasser Abed Rabbo, Nabil Abu -Rudeina and the Palestinian negotiating team. Forget about Washington, it is Ramallah that counts these days and for good reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
