Patient Optimism Needed

Submitted by Frank K. Hoover (United States), Nov 27, 2007 at 18:19

It is very opimistic, and perhaps too optimist, to expect good results from the Annapolis meeting, but we must make this good faith effort. Whether as active participants or observers all the essential players seem to be present.. If the observers are moved, sooner or later, to seriously reconsider their doctrine of eliminating Israel f rom the Middle East there is reason for optimism. But considering the youth of their most recent zealous conscripts, it will take at least a decade or so for the doctrine to die.

So, for the foreseeable future we must develop a realistic, persistent, patient, pressured optimism until their change of heart occurs. In this era of WMD and terrorists, with nations willing to use them, their current attitude about Israel is a crime against humanity, unacceptible wherever the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths coexist..

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