Death of the Mideast Peace process
By Chuck Freilich | Saturday, December 2, 2006 | The Boston Globe
Chuck Freilich is a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Before that, he served as Deputy National Security Advisor in his native land, Israel. His point of view here is not what I expected. The tone here is pragmatic and realistic, and Freilich draws on the history of 33 years of failed US and international attempts to achieve peace in the region, none of which have even come close to meeting their goals.
In his opinion, the peace process itself is an utter failure.
What now? That’s the heart of the essay. Freilich puts forward five admittedly unappealing alternatives, and concludes, “Not a pretty picture. Just the Middle East.”
Personally, I disagree with his conclusions. It takes (at least) two to make war, and (at least) two to make peace, and history shows us that peace breeds massive human enhancement by any measure we know (health, prosperity, education, crime, name it). Nonetheless, his rationale is expertly expressed and definitely worth reading and considering.
But over and over in my head as I was reading this, I heard the Hair Tribes I have been blessed to be part of, marching in denim and chanting: ‘Peace now, Freedom now, Peace now, Freedom now…’…BS
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