Saturday, July 15, 2006

Understanding Israel/Lebanon

Here's an interesting interview with Mark Perry, co-director of the Conflicts Forum which I've never heard of but seems to be an NGO trying actual diplomacy in the middle east.

"There are five major political movements in the Middle East: Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood. And we [the U.S. government] don’t talk to any of them. How can we possibly have any leverage diplomatically to end the current conflict when the only party we talk to is Israel?"

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