Tuesday, December 21, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Robin Shepherd: Jimmy Carter back to old tricks, backs unilateral Palestinain statehood even as Palestinian PM opposes it - 'The least successful US president of the 20th century seems hell bent on backing every anti-Israeli manoeuvre he can attach himself to, rarely missing the opportunity in the process to blunder into a diplomatic minefield he is clearly not competent to navigate. That's right, Jimmy Carter is at it again. This time he has given his backing to the notion of a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence on 1967 lines. The idea -- unworkable in practice and a surefire recipe for renewed violence -- is that the Palestinians would make such a declaration in the middle of 2011 and then, Kosovo style, get as many UN member states as possible to recognise it. Brazil and Argentina pre-emptively recognised Palestinian independence earlier this month in anticipation of such a move...'
