The Value of Engagement

June 15, 2007
“More harm and no good at all has come from the Middle East interventions of Secretary of State Condi Rice. She has been promoting an Israeli-Palestinian "political horizon"-the latest euphemism for a comprehensive agreement. It sounds fine, but it has no relationship to the realities on the ground; in fact, it merely perpetuates a harmful illusion. The best advice for the moment is that once given to the overly peripatetic Secretary of State John Foster Dulles: Don't just do something-stand there!”
--Mortimer Zuckerman, U.S. News and World Report, May 20, 2007
  • “Talking is in our interest. We should work on this political horizon because without it the Palestinians have no hope for their political future, and it is within this hopeless context that Hamas and other terrorist organizations thrive.”
    --Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh, June 14, 2007


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