Israel’s road to a warm peace with Egypt

22.2.2011
via Common Ground News Service (click for original)

 

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The United States must step up. Having applauded the Egyptian protesters for bending the arc of history towards justice, the mantle now falls upon US President Barack Obama.

 

Using the Olmert-Abbas points of agreement as a foundation – and such other well-known frameworks for resolving the conflict as the Clinton parameters and the Geneva Accords – the President needs firmly to propose the Obama blueprint. The world is waiting for reconciliation in that troubled region. Getting close just isn’t good enough. It’s time for Obama to bridge the gaps – and take on the obligation to bend the arc of history towards Israeli-Palestinian peace.