The Palestinian parliament will vote on incoming Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas' new Cabinet on Tuesday, and the long-awaited international peace plan for the Middle East will be presented the next day, Palestinian officials said Sunday. The White House has said that once the parliament has approved Abbas' Cabinet, the road map' to peace — a joint effort by the so-called Quartet of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia — will be presented formally. The peace plan proposes a three-phase, three-year timetable toward Palestinian statehood and a comprehensive settlement of the century-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, starting with an immediate end to 31 months of violence.
| I suppose there's a reason for the "Roadmap" being presented, but the level of compliance by the Paleos with Bush's demands of a year ago has been minimal at best. Just for startsies, there haven't been any elections. Nope. Zippo. We're not dealing with Yasser, which I suppose is a good thing, but other than that, and the appointment (not election) of a PM, there hasn't been much. The Roadmap is going to be a waste, too — they're not going to comply, period. But plugging in the old peace processor makes the guys who think talk is good feel like they're doing something. I suspect that what they're going to end up doing is giving away more in exchange for more promises that aren't going to be kept. |
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