Will Annapolis Renew the "Peace Process"?

by Daniel Pipes
Wed, 10 Oct 2007

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Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Do you believe that a significant renewed peace process has begun? Who do you think will make a significant concession at Annapolis: Israel, the Palestinians, both or neither?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #41: Has a renewed peace process begun?"

No significant peace process exists now, nor has it ever. Israel's signing of a diplomatic agreements with Egypt (1979), Lebanon (1983), the PLO (1993), and Jordan (1994) all proved ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst.

Preliminary skirmishes suggest that the usual pattern will hold in Annapolis. The Israeli side makes "painful concessions," the Arab interlocutor imperiously disdains these even as terrorism and other forms of violence continue. Jerusalem responds with several more rounds of ever-more painful concessions until finally the Arab side grudgingly accepts them, offering airy promises of "peace" that promptly turn into just the opposite – greater levels of hostility and violence.

It's a mug's game that next month will mark its 30^th anniversary. The Israeli body politic still has not wised up, much less all those do-gooder mediators, to what I have dubbed the "war process." As the spectacle resumes next month, one braces, prepares for the worst, and hopes for only limited damage from this iteration. (October 10, 2007)

Related Topics: Arab-Israel conflict & diplomacy

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Misnomer [91 words]	Stuart teich	Oct 18, 2007 07:06
Abbas again "playing around"...... [46 words]	Ynnatchkah	Oct 17, 2007 13:13
Arab Muslims Do Not Want Peace With Israel [166 words]	clarence paul puckett	Oct 10, 2007 22:47
What Tommyrot. [97 words]	hyman peskin	Oct 10, 2007 22:06
Agreed: there will be peace only when the "Peace 'process'" is dead [68 words]	Abu Nudnik	Oct 10, 2007 18:49
↔ Suicidal Peace. [306 words]	Maura Collins	Oct 11, 2007 09:21
↔ Dont get mad, get organized [23 words]	yuval Brandstetter MD	Oct 12, 2007 04:47
london [53 words]	surj	Oct 10, 2007 18:40
What can be done? [56 words]	Eileen	Oct 10, 2007 17:33
"Peace" process [194 words]	Donald W. Bales	Oct 10, 2007 16:29
No Control. [193 words]	Ynnatchkah	Oct 10, 2007 15:25
Been there, done that, for the ten thousandth time! [279 words]	Ken Besig	Oct 10, 2007 14:55
Israel: the only country that consistenly rewards those who wish to destroy her. [647 words]	Dr RJP	Oct 10, 2007 14:20
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