Peace Is Work

So, Annapolis has come and gone and we are witnessing meetings, rocket attacks, incursions and construction projects. All the things that can trip up the peace process. What's worse is that I'm pretty sure that there are more to follow. But Israelis and Palestinians are talking. And the Saudis and the Syrians and the Europeans and the Russians as well as the US government are involved. There is a group in Gaza that wants the talks to fail. They are not part of the talks. But I believe that if the talks proceed and are substantive, the population of Gaza will be interested and the time will come to bring back a chastened third leg in the negotiations. We have to support the US Initiative. We have to support the upcoming Paris economic summit and the prospect of a meeting of the principles in Russia. As long as the two governments continue to meet and find a way to generate progress with all the assistance necessary from the Quartet and its Western allies the peace process will advance to accomplish meaningful benchmarks and change the dynamic to a new more productive frame of reference in which peace is realizable.

Larry Snider