| of the talk about leaders too "weak" make peace. Saying we can`t have peace till we have strong leaders gets the underlying logic of the situation backwards. It`s self-defeating to wait for strong leaders to emerge before tackling final status, as it is the precisely the repeated postponement of talks on the core issues, and settling instead for damage control and crisis management, that has produced on both sides weak government leaders and progressively stronger rejectionist movements. Nothing will strengthen a “weak” Olmert and a “weak” Abbas more than good-faith, productive peace talks. The only question is whether there exists the political will to go for it. |
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