| ID | 115061 |
| Title Proper | What now? |
| Other Title Information | saying good-bye to the peace process illusion |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Zantovsky, Michael |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The train wreck of the Palestinian request for recognition as a state at last year's meeting of the United Nations, which could have been seen coming for at least the whole of last summer, laid bare the total vacuity of the term "Middle East Peace Process" and the impotence of the international diplomacy surrounding it. Such a disaster often occurs when process takes over substance and justifies its own existence by belated and ultimately unsuccessful attempts at remedy. Some of it is a matter of physics-when the train sets out it is relatively easy to stop with a timely application of the brakes. When, on the other hand, it is allowed to gain full speed because of arguments among the engineers, idle hopes that the train will run out of steam, or the simple refusal to acknowledge that it is even moving, the only thing left to do is to lie down on the floor and pray. |
| `In' analytical Note | World Affairs US Vol. 174, No.5; Jan-Feb 2012: p.77-87 |
| Journal Source | World Affairs US Vol. 174, No.5; Jan-Feb 2012: p.77-87 |
| Key Words | United Nations ; Middle East Peace Process ; International Diplomacy ; Palestine ; Middle East Politics ; Middle East |