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...Your article properly identified Republicans as civic saboteurs. But it did not adequately characterize the weak centrism of Democrats. With our nation in desperate, urgent need of major reforms, we are faced with a political choice between the status quo or doubling down on ruin. Mark Warner Minneapolis...
Washington, Broken Your article "Why Washington's Tied Up in Knots," properly identified Republicans as civic saboteurs [March 1]. But it did not adequately characterize the wan centrism of Democrats. With our nation in urgent need of major reforms, we are faced with a political choice between the status quo or doubling down on ruin. Mark Warner, MINNEAPOLIS...
...Ireland—particularly when it comes to political leadership and even-handed U.S. support (although the recent diplomatic quarreling between Israel and the U.S. and the calls for a settlement freeze suggest this may change). It is also evident that the Israelis have gotten comfortable with the status quo, and the U.S. and Europe must take measures to change that. The spark to that change can begin with the 42 million members of the Irish-American community. Irish-Americans should unite as they did during the 1990s, this time in opposition to Israel’s illegal occupation...
...they support the establishment of a Palestinian state, only one-third expect it to happen in the next five years. Among Palestinians, 70% believe the chances that an independent state will emerge in the next five years are slim to nonexistent. Two-thirds no longer think a final-status agreement is on the horizon...
...such an arrangement work? Among Palestinians, it would face opposition from Hamas, which runs Gaza but would be excluded from the deal; among Israelis, it would provoke conservatives who would object to the inevitable dismantling of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Many of the knottiest issues, including the status of Jerusalem, would still be unresolved. But a deal on an interim Palestinian state would provide some measure of hope and allow Obama to show he is capable of extracting concessions from both sides. At this point, the alternative is more misunderstanding, bitterness and despair - a grim legacy...