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Middle East tragicomedy
Remember when godfather Corleone made the head of a Hollywood film studio “an offer he can’t refuse”? So recently the Palestinians received a peace offer from Israel’s prime minister “they could not accept.”
USA Today reacts: “Israel takes a step closer to peace.” The New York Times cites Israel as making a policy reversal with caveats.
Anyone who follows the international media would see most of the world’s reactions to Israel’s offer as very different from our own. Perception has long ago replaced the reality.
Two “inseparable” superpowers in the Middle East, Israel and the United States, are planning to sit down with the scattered Palestinians and exchange offers. It reminds me historically of the some 400 treaties signed by the U.S. with the scattered Native Americans. Every treaty was either broken or manipulated by the powerful.
The powerful in the United States and Israel will never bring about a just peace. Only the peoples of both countries and throughout the Middle East can bring about the impossible.
Horace Walpole once wrote that life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. The tragicomedy in the Middle East continues.
Ken Bubb
Spokane