This BBC interview with Jordan’s King Abdullah is well worth watching.
3 Responses to “A Warning from King Abdullah”
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With all respect, King A. does not bring anything to the table but excuses of why there is no peace. Why does he wait for the west to find the solution? If he is so in tune with what’s happening on the ground, then why don’t he spearhead a peace solution?
King Abdullah is articulate, and his fears about the increased popularity of the Islamists are worth hearing, but he hasn’t any solution at all.
The Lebanese 7 Point Proposal seems like a bad joke to me. One point is that Israel will immediately withdraw, and to more restrictive borders than when this war started; another is that the Lebanese army will see to it that Hezbollah is disarmed.
This is crazy. The Lebanese government either couldn’t or wouldn’t prevent Hezbollah from acquiring massive amounts of rocket artillery, placing it on the Israei border, and using it. Why would anyone (particularly the Israelis) think they could/would do it now? What would this do for the one million Israelis currently living in bomb shelters, other than guarantee them a much longer, permanent perhaps, stay?
The 7 point plan is a call for Israel to surrender.
Of course, no one has any better solution to this mess, so I don’t mock Abdullah for proposing a non-starter. But it is a non-starter.
Robert Pape recently had an op-ed in NYT about the war in middle-east (via Alan Miron); “Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Hezbollah is principally neither a political party nor an Islamist militia. It is a broad movement that evolved in reaction…
With all respect, King A. does not bring anything to the table but excuses of why there is no peace. Why does he wait for the west to find the solution? If he is so in tune with what’s happening on the ground, then why don’t he spearhead a peace solution?
King Abdullah is articulate, and his fears about the increased popularity of the Islamists are worth hearing, but he hasn’t any solution at all.
The Lebanese 7 Point Proposal seems like a bad joke to me. One point is that Israel will immediately withdraw, and to more restrictive borders than when this war started; another is that the Lebanese army will see to it that Hezbollah is disarmed.
This is crazy. The Lebanese government either couldn’t or wouldn’t prevent Hezbollah from acquiring massive amounts of rocket artillery, placing it on the Israei border, and using it. Why would anyone (particularly the Israelis) think they could/would do it now? What would this do for the one million Israelis currently living in bomb shelters, other than guarantee them a much longer, permanent perhaps, stay?
The 7 point plan is a call for Israel to surrender.
Of course, no one has any better solution to this mess, so I don’t mock Abdullah for proposing a non-starter. But it is a non-starter.
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Robert Pape recently had an op-ed in NYT about the war in middle-east (via Alan Miron); “Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Hezbollah is principally neither a political party nor an Islamist militia. It is a broad movement that evolved in reaction…