Monitoring For Peace

December 14, 2007
"Accepting U.S. arbitration on the disagreements between us and the Palestinians, Israel gave up on its sovereignty to discuss issues vital to its security. This administration, that ignores the incitement in the Palestinian curriculum, under the Secretary, who believes Abu Mazen is another Martin Luther King, will decide who is inciting against whom. The 'judge' that Condi nominated, general James Jones, is known to be cold toward us and related to U.S. interests in Arab countries."
--Likud MK Uzi Landau, "Dangerous Friendship," Ynet, December 13, 2007
  • “Monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. This is the key.”
    --Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt Dan Kurtzer, on lessons learned from a study of U.S. Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts, The Jewish Daily Forward, December 12, 2007


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