Gaza: "The Mideast's Ground Zero"
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more from Politics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/opinion/07friedman.html?emc=eta1
Here is "The New York Times'" columnist Thomas L. Friedman's take on the current Gaza situation and the problem confronting the incoming Obama administration there."The fighting, death and destruction in Gaza is painful to watch. But it’s all too familiar. It’s the latest version of the longest-running play in the modern Middle East, which, if I were to give it a title, would be called: 'Who owns this hotel? Can the Jews have a room? And shouldn’t we blow up the bar and replace it with a mosque?'
That is, Gaza is a mini-version of three great struggles that have been playing out since 1948: 1) Who is going to be the regional superpower — Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Iran? 2) Should there be a Jewish state in the Middle East and, if so, on what Palestinian terms? And 3) Who is going to dominate Arab society — Islamists who are intolerant of other faiths and want to choke off modernity or modernists who want to embrace the future, with an Arab-Muslim face? Let’s look at each."
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bedeboop
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Much easier said than done. If only.
- 1 year ago
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bedeboop
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RCS
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Be sure to click on the link and read the article. Though what he advocates is far easier said than done, Friedman does make some good observations.
- 1 year ago
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RCS
