Word: logjam
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...problem, of course, with performance space at Harvard is there aren’t enough of them, and it’s a huge logjam,” Orchard says...
...Despite the difficulties and setbacks, there's a mounting sense in diplomatic circles that the common geopolitical interests, and accord among the leadership, of the U.S. and the Arab world in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may have created an unprecedented opportunity to break the logjam. But the extent to which that opportunity is realized may depend, in large part, on how much the Bush administration - and its Arab and Israeli allies - are willing to risk in the traditionally thankless pursuit of Middle East peace...
...initiatives to break the logjam will be reinforced by this week's conference in Egypt between senior Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian rabbis, imams and priests, which resulted in a joint declaration that condemned "killing innocents in the name of God" and committed the signatories "to throw their moral weight behind attempts to stop the violence." Participants included Israeli and Palestinian cabinet members, and the head of Islam's most prestigious university, Cairo's Al Azhar...
...Hamas 'cease-fire,' if it means anything in practice, may ease some of the political pressure on Arafat, but it won't get him out of his strategic logjam. Israel and the U.S. are keeping up the pressure to crack down on the organization, and Hamas is currently reported to be debating Arafat's demand that it hand over one of its key military leaders for arrest in line with an Israeli demand. The smaller Islamic Jihad organization made a similar statement later on Friday, after earlier vowing to continue suicide attacks inside Israel. The 'truce' call may presage...
...that neither side sees dialogue with the other as a means of securing its vital interests. And, at the same time, the current stalemate is inherently unstable. That combination may be raising the temptation for leaders on both sides to try and break out of the strategic logjam by applying greater force...