George Mitchell has now been tasked with the most difficult diplomatic mission one can imagine: To negotiate a resolution to the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As mentioned in a previous post, I don’t think that the two-state solution that everybody had been talking about for as long as I can remember is a viable possibility. This article poses 5 tough, reality-based questions for Mr. Mitchell and is well worth reading.
Mr. Mitchell strikes me as a bit of a bloodless bureaucrat who caught a lucky break when he was at the right time in the right place and thus was able to successfully negotiate a peace deal in Ireland in the mid 1990s. I hope that I am wrong in this assessment.
Barack Obama has thus far not distinguished himself in the mater of middle-east peace efforts. He was silent as Israel committed yet another massacre among Palestinian civilians in Gaza and I miss a sense of moral outrage directed at Israeli official policies in his statements. Not much change in this department, so far.
