Resolution will eventually be found with Israel
It is important to note that the Israel's positive response for negotiations with Arabs has brought the dead-end conflict to a new, much more important crossroads, according to a UAE daily.
"While a final solution is still very far away, an engagement with both sides looking for an end to the 60-odd-year hostility will mean that that road has already been taken, and a resolution will eventually be found. However long that road, if both sides realise the potential for a mutually beneficial compromise, it will not be longer than and as futile as the one taken so far", wrote the Dubai- based 'Khaleej Times' in its editorial today.
"All parties should be careful, however, that complacency is not allowed to creep in. Already, the Palestinians are going through the worst times even they have seen, and the region's highly flammable political fabric can be set alight at any time without warning.
Therefore, solid follow-up is expected soon. It is advised that it begin with the West withdrawing from its painful and unfair economic blockade of the helpless and hapless Palestinian people", said the paper.
"From the looks of things, if only Saudi Arabia had shifted its regional-role player gears sooner, the Middle East may have had fewer problems. For, if the Arab nations finally settling on a unified platform with regard to the region?s growing problems, especially Palestine, was in ways unprecedented, so is the response that has been prompted from Tel Aviv", wrote the English language daily.
The paper noted that in stark contrast to the 2002 Israeli rejection of the same proposal, Ehud Olmert?s government is now apparently ready for negotiations with the Arabs. This makes for a commendable feather in the cap for advocates of negotiations, who have long been put in the back seat by some of their more hawkish contemporaries.
"Whether or not Israel will retreat to pre-1967 lines in exchange for formal recognition and normal relations with all Arab nations remains to be seen, even doubtful. But furthering the diplomatic process will mark the beginning of willful negotiations with countries, except Egypt and Jordan, with whom there is not even formal mutual recognition. So, an air of optimism will hover over coming developments, with Saudi Arabia looking to materialise the called-for conference now that Israel has again knocked the ball into its court", added the paper.
"Among other things, these developments will provide for a sigh of relief in a region simmering with discontent and unpredictability, especially with the West's new row with Iran. Therefore, the sooner the painful compromises recently referred to by Olmert are brought into play, the sooner both sides will make greater efforts to avoid developments that might reduce their yield to naught", the paper concluded. Source WAM
"While a final solution is still very far away, an engagement with both sides looking for an end to the 60-odd-year hostility will mean that that road has already been taken, and a resolution will eventually be found. However long that road, if both sides realise the potential for a mutually beneficial compromise, it will not be longer than and as futile as the one taken so far", wrote the Dubai- based 'Khaleej Times' in its editorial today.
"All parties should be careful, however, that complacency is not allowed to creep in. Already, the Palestinians are going through the worst times even they have seen, and the region's highly flammable political fabric can be set alight at any time without warning.
Therefore, solid follow-up is expected soon. It is advised that it begin with the West withdrawing from its painful and unfair economic blockade of the helpless and hapless Palestinian people", said the paper.
"From the looks of things, if only Saudi Arabia had shifted its regional-role player gears sooner, the Middle East may have had fewer problems. For, if the Arab nations finally settling on a unified platform with regard to the region?s growing problems, especially Palestine, was in ways unprecedented, so is the response that has been prompted from Tel Aviv", wrote the English language daily.
The paper noted that in stark contrast to the 2002 Israeli rejection of the same proposal, Ehud Olmert?s government is now apparently ready for negotiations with the Arabs. This makes for a commendable feather in the cap for advocates of negotiations, who have long been put in the back seat by some of their more hawkish contemporaries.
"Whether or not Israel will retreat to pre-1967 lines in exchange for formal recognition and normal relations with all Arab nations remains to be seen, even doubtful. But furthering the diplomatic process will mark the beginning of willful negotiations with countries, except Egypt and Jordan, with whom there is not even formal mutual recognition. So, an air of optimism will hover over coming developments, with Saudi Arabia looking to materialise the called-for conference now that Israel has again knocked the ball into its court", added the paper.
"Among other things, these developments will provide for a sigh of relief in a region simmering with discontent and unpredictability, especially with the West's new row with Iran. Therefore, the sooner the painful compromises recently referred to by Olmert are brought into play, the sooner both sides will make greater efforts to avoid developments that might reduce their yield to naught", the paper concluded. Source WAM
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