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An Opening For Arab-Israeli Peace?

By The Daily Dish
Jul 26 2007, 4:28 AM ET

Even Captain Ed wonders:

The instability in the Middle East has forced the hand of the moderate Arab states. They have realized, somewhat belatedly, that the greater threat to their fiefdoms comes not from Israel or the West but from the radicals they have nurtured as threats against both….

These states need to tend to their own back yard. They never really cared about the Palestinian cause, using it as a strawman to channel the rage their populaces felt at their oppression. Now that rage threatens to swallow their regimes …reaching accommodation for the Palestinians will bring them a measure of peace, and hopefully marginalize the radical Islamists they have unleashed.

And Iran threatens to use that weapon against them ...

In Israel, meanwhile, there are signs of increasing division between Jews and Arabs.



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