The Road Map is Doomed

Reader comment on item: "A Shot at Peace": Can the U.S. Enforce the "Road Map"

Submitted by Jay Vail (United States), Jul 9, 2003 at 13:19

I wish I could be hopeful about the fate of the Road Map, but I'm afraid that it, like its predecessors, is doomed because of the failure to involve the Palestinians' paymasters in the process. Until Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia accept the right of Israel to exist, and until they stop funding Hamas and other groups dedicated to the destruction of Israel, there will be no peace in the Middle East. So far I have not seen any signs of efforts to engage any of these three countries.

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