The Nobel prize committee had an opportunity today, just days after a hard-fought peace risked being lost in the Colombian jungle, to provoke peace and kickstart that process.
For months, he has remained steadily determined to disarm Saddam Hussein, first in the face of warnings that doing so without a Middle East peace risked Arab rage, and now despite worries that North Korea is the more volatile threat.
The mere existence of the resumed "peace process" risks becoming the end in itself and as long as the protagonists can send the message they want – that they are "engaged in talks" – they have an excuse to do little else.
By John Cassidy April 29 , 2014After two days of being pounded by Republicans and supporters of Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry bowed to the inevitable on Monday night, clarifying his warning that Israel, if it turns away from the peace process, risks turning into "an apartheid state".
After two days of being pounded by Republicans and supporters of Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry bowed to the inevitable on Monday night, clarifying his warning that Israel, if it turns away from the peace process, risks turning into "an apartheid state".
Here it is, now let's see what you're ready to agree to," Netanyahu toys with President Obama, makes Israel look like it wants land more than peace and risks never forging a West Bank deal — thereby permanently absorbing its 2.5 million Palestinians and eventually no longer having a Jewish majority.
Any talk about Europe in particular -- unless it directly involves high finance or war and peace -- risks inducing narcolepsy among voters.
I believe they are ready to take that risk — peace is also risk — but Netanyahu has to lead them there.
Even this sort of peace involves risk, but it is the only kind of risk that Israel should take.
Peace is risk, no way around that.
