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Originally Posted by BillCosby
Can “loose cannon” diplomacy really work? ( a term not defined)
Or does it only make matters worse?
Considering the alternative I don't think it can make things much worse...... Having any of these misfits running our country there is gonna help??? lol
They have screwed up everything they have touched......... Hell I would rather have carrot top over there than george bush.......... @ least he couldn't screw ti up any more........
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I am not too sure what circles you run in. But the term “loose cannon” is pretty much universally defined.
When you say that you “don’t think it can make things much worse” I am assuming that you are endorsing Erekat’s actions. You support his attempt at “trial by public opinion” on this issue?
While I admit that “it can’t hurt” is not much of a glowing endorsement. I am curious about what you mean by “considering the alternatives”. What alternatives are you talking about?
I am unable to see what alternatives that you might be talking about. The Israeli government is powerless to stop these proposed settlement expansions. There are no laws forbidding any settlement activity, either new construction, or expansion. There are no formal treaties regulating any sort of settlement activities. The government has no legal means to oppose these proposed expansions at all. The ‘agreements’ that Erekat speaks of, have no legal enforcement within the Israeli courts.
The only way that the government could stop these proposed activities, is if they could show some justification for interfering with the livelihoods of the contractors hired to do the construction work. Since the Israeli government is not a dictatorship, or for that matter any other form of totalitarian rulership, they cannot act precipitately.
The government clearly cannot simply claim that stopping this construction is going to help anything. Especially since everything is clearly going in the wrong direction.
IMO: Erekat’s actions are only exposing the helpless position that the Israeli government has been placed in, by the total lack of any positive action on the part of the PA. I do not see how this is helpful.
I also do not see how you can claim that it is not hurting. Especially since Erekat is claiming that
. . . Abbas told Rice that Israel's continuing expansion of settlements, a halt to which is a major component of the so-called roadmap blueprint for peace, "is one of the greatest obstacles that stands in our way to reach an agreement with the Israelis. . . . " Obviously it is hurting, or at least Erekat is claiming that it is hurting.