Why hasn President Bushs “road map” to Middle East peace worked so far?
The so-called “road map” to Middle East peace has failed. The “road map” calls for a comprehensive Israeli-Arab peace treaty and an independent Palestine by the end of 2005. Considering the progress so far, in 2005 your odds of seeing the headline “ISRAEL, ARABS SIGN COMPREHENSIVE PEACE TREATY” are about as good as your odds of seeing “PRESIDENT SHARPTON ADDRESSES CONGRESS.” Road maps, real and metaphorical, can’t work if you won’t use them. Israeli, Palestinian and American leaders have for all in tents and porpoises, ignored the map. The Israeli government of Ariel Sharon refused, as the “road map” called on it to do, to dismantle Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank or Gaza Strip erected since March 2001. “Uhhh-huh-huh. He said erected.” The road map also required that Israeli forces pull out of the territories it has occupied since September 2000. Now, go ahead and guess if Israel pulled out. Are you done guessing yet? The answer is no, they didn’t pull out. Sharon won’t st
