MB Civic

By Jackson Diehl | Thursday, November 8, 2007 | The Washington Post

“…For Olmert, Abbas and Rice, the motivation for bulling through this familiar pattern of resistance may not be just courage but fear. All three know that if they fail this time, the result will not be the mere continuation of a miserable status quo. More likely, it will be another eruption of bloodshed and the consolidation of Hamas as the preeminent Palestinian power. That means not Abbas but Hamas’s patron, Iran, will become the arbiter of whether Israel is accepted as ‘a Jewish homeland’….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110702073_pf.html