Rather than read Sullivan or even Goldberg, find those who can outline how the parties have manipulated talks in the past and consider how third-parties can frustrate their attempts to do so, again.
This is just sad, bloggers going at each others throats like this. On the whole, it's a turnoff to me.I'll add this perspective: one thing that some 'old hands', who are disciplined with the IP debate, know is how to get into and out of the discussion, before it degenerates into ... well, let's use the word "aspersions".
Here is a statement that demonstrates that AS doesn't know any more than his "opponents" about what to do:
I regard the establishment of the Jewish state as one of the West's high-points in the 20th Century. Like America's founding, it was not immaculate, ...
*sigh* There is more, perhaps much more, but that will do.
FORGET THEM ALL
Meanwhile, all this babble distracts from the development that Netanyahu has agreed to indirect talks and so has a team of Abbas negotiators.
Ignore Sullivan-Goldberg and think about what needs to be done to push this welcome development along, to strengthen it, to demand it continue. Rather than read Sullivan or even Goldberg, find those who can outline how the parties have manipulated talks in the past and consider how third-parties can frustrate their attempts to do so, again.
Think about how the Obama administration's approach, using George Mitchell, is strong and weak. Think about how it ought to be restructured, if at all.
