Posted by
colorado springs citizen on Saturday, May 24, 2008 6:32:29 AM
Needless to say, Washington can draft a new roadmap but it will be able
to implement it only on the half of Palestinian territory under Abbas'
and Fatah's control. This scenario is possible, but it will only bring
peace to a small part of the Palestinian people - West Bankers. There
will be no civil war between Fatah and Hamas because the two
Palestinian enclaves will be separated by the powerful buffer, Israel.
The rebellious Gaza Strip will be squeezed between Israel and Egypt.
Bush, Hosni Mubarak, and Olmert must have discussed the introduction of
inter-Arab peacekeepers into the region, of which the Egyptian military
may form the backbone. We should not forget that before the 1967 war,
the Gaza Strip belonged to Egypt and was ruled by Egyptian
administration. History may repeat itself.