UN Secretary-General Ban- Ki moon is to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, and US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Monday night amid a sudden spurt of intensive efforts to broker a Gaza cease-fire.
Because terrorists can't be allowed to lose.
Kerry plans to stay in Cairo until Wednesday morning and has no currently scheduled end to his trip, which may entail talks with officials from Qatar. The Gulf state has relatively close ties to Hamas and hosts its leader, Khaled Meshaal. "Our goal is to achieve a cessation of hostilities as soon as possible," one senior State Department official told reporters as Kerry flew to Egypt. "We don't expect it will be easy, though. This is a very complicated dynamic.""
| A number of people, including Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., have noted the honourable Secretary of State's utter incompetence at achieving diplomatic solutions in the Middle East, so this may prove amusing. |
| Kerry is just the latest Secretary of State to think that he could make his legacy by achieving peace in the Middle East. He, like all the others, think that the solution is to get both sides to 'talk' and to get the Juice to give enough to make 'peace' happen. We all know better -- there is no peace because at least one side doesn't want one. But try telling the smartest people in the room that... |
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