The Peace Process: Three New Year’s Resolutions (Huffington Post)

– “‘Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man’, said the ‘First American’ Benjamin Franklin. The whole world hopes these sentiments spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s envoy, Issac Molho, and chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat, when they met yesterday in Amman, Jordan to conduct the first direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians for 15 months.

It would be naïve to expect too much from these first halting contacts. But jaw-jaw is always better than war-war, as Churchill said, and optimism is no vice, especially at New Year. Perhaps we can be allowed three resolutions in the spirit of Ben Franklin. 

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