Good cop, bad cop

The 'Palestinians' tried to play the good cop, bad cop game with Congress this week, with unelected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad playing the good cop and 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen playing the bad cop. The Palestinian leadership sent mixed messages to a Democratic Congressional delegation visiting Ramallah, with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad

No use throwing out a good agreement over one point

Representatives of Hamas and Fatah opened talks in Cairo on Sunday on implementing their 'reconciliation' agreement. Fatah Central Committee Member, Sakhr Bseiso, said that the issues under discussion will be the means of implementing the reconciliation agreement. These discussions will start with the issue of the government and move to all other issues within the agreement, including elections,

Fayyad's summer camp divisions named after terrorists

When I went to summer camp, the lower divisions were named after animals (we were called Gurim, Kfirim and Arayot, which were three stages in the life of lions) and then the higher divisions had names that indicated their loftier status (they were called Maalot, which means merits, and Kerem, the CIT unit from which future counselors would be chosen).'Palestinian' summer camp is a little...

Good news: Hamas and Fatah to restart unity talks

Hamas and Fatah will resume their unity talks in Cairo later this month, with Fatah's insistence on Salam Fayyad remaining Prime Minister still the most contentious item on the agenda. The decision to resume the efforts to implement the reconciliation accord was taken following a phone conversation between Fatah’s Azzam al-Ahmed and Musa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of the Hamas “political bureau”

A waste, but whose waste?

Roger Cohen calls the last year a waste in the Middle East 'peace process' and that is likely a correct description. But rather than look at why the last year was a waste, Roger directs his venom at Israel - and only at Israel - rather than impartially analyzing what went wrong. Perhaps, I can fill in the gaps (Hat Tip: Soccer Dad). There is no alternative to resolving this most agonizing of