I don't get it
Annapolis: Folly, or folly?
'Cause they can't be freakin' serious. I mean, sure... it's pretty miraculous that some of those Arab nations showed up for the summit, or whatever they're calling it... but other than that, this whole thing is a waste of resources -- money, time and hope.
It's good to hope. It's good to hope for the possibility of "peace in the Middle East." But once your hopes are shot down time and time again, The Boy Who Cried Wolf syndrome sneaks in, and it's easy to start looking at the whole situation as fairly hopeless.
So now, even though the Saudis and (gasp!) the Syrians apparently showed up for this event -- the idea that this could signal the start of something real is still pretty far out.
Maybe it would mean more if either of the leaders had any real power, but um, duh, Abbas is so powerless that he's lucky to be alive, and Olmert is pretty much only powerful 'cause he's good at manipulating the media and the minions, despite his history of corruption. And 'cause Sharon's still lying in the hospital somewhere in a coma. But he's sure not powerful enough to institute some of the changes the Palestinians and/or other Arabs would "require" for peace to exist. (Like, well, allowing ourselves to be pushed into the sea...)
I feel like we're acting like bad parents.
Parents encourage good behavior by rewarding it. When a child does something he or she shouldn't do, good parents find a way to signal that the behavior is not acceptable.
So... the Palestinian people, in a fair and monitored election, elected a terrorist group to be their government. They continue to shoot rockets into sovereign Israeli territory. They continue to attempt sending terrorists into Jerusalem. They continue to defend their belief that Israelis don't belong in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), by randomly choosing people to shoot at and sometimes kill.
And we go to a peace summit with them? Huh?
I just don't get it.
'Cause they can't be freakin' serious. I mean, sure... it's pretty miraculous that some of those Arab nations showed up for the summit, or whatever they're calling it... but other than that, this whole thing is a waste of resources -- money, time and hope.
It's good to hope. It's good to hope for the possibility of "peace in the Middle East." But once your hopes are shot down time and time again, The Boy Who Cried Wolf syndrome sneaks in, and it's easy to start looking at the whole situation as fairly hopeless.
So now, even though the Saudis and (gasp!) the Syrians apparently showed up for this event -- the idea that this could signal the start of something real is still pretty far out.
Maybe it would mean more if either of the leaders had any real power, but um, duh, Abbas is so powerless that he's lucky to be alive, and Olmert is pretty much only powerful 'cause he's good at manipulating the media and the minions, despite his history of corruption. And 'cause Sharon's still lying in the hospital somewhere in a coma. But he's sure not powerful enough to institute some of the changes the Palestinians and/or other Arabs would "require" for peace to exist. (Like, well, allowing ourselves to be pushed into the sea...)
I feel like we're acting like bad parents.
Parents encourage good behavior by rewarding it. When a child does something he or she shouldn't do, good parents find a way to signal that the behavior is not acceptable.
So... the Palestinian people, in a fair and monitored election, elected a terrorist group to be their government. They continue to shoot rockets into sovereign Israeli territory. They continue to attempt sending terrorists into Jerusalem. They continue to defend their belief that Israelis don't belong in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), by randomly choosing people to shoot at and sometimes kill.
And we go to a peace summit with them? Huh?
I just don't get it.
posted by M at 06:32
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