Sen. Joseph Lieberman expressed support for Palestinian statehood during a visit to Ramallah on Monday and called conditions in the West Bank town "desperate."
I wonder if he got Jane's autograph while he was there?
On his first trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories since May 2000, Lieberman, D-Conn., said he came with a message from Congress that it wants to take an active part in bringing peace to the region. "There's strong support for the aspirations of the Palestinian people for independent statehood. The question is whether there will be sufficient leadership here and in the world to bring this about sooner than later," Lieberman told reporters after meeting Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo. "It's important to bring about hope in Palestinians and among Israelis because without hope there will be no progress."
Ummm... Maybe there's no hope because there's no progress(cause -> effect). If there's no progress because of Paleointransigence and their unpleasant habit of killing people at random, perhaps they should stop both, and then there would be progress, which would then lead to hope. Once we have hope, we can maybe sing "Kumbaya" around the campfire and feel like we're One. |