For the time being, I am not inclined to post about Annapolis. The whole thing is a farce. Helena Cobban had a very good post yesterday on her blog discussing the Israeli-Palestinian versus the Israeli-Arab conflict, and the near absence of the second from Annapolis. I am only going to contemplate this picture of Abbas (from Reuters) shown escorted and in 'good' hands. The picture alone tells the story of what will happen to the Palestinians at Annapolis.
Uri Avnery delivers a very lucid analysis of the chances for peace resulting from the Annapolis conference.
UPDATE, December 1st, 2007:
From The New York Times: US pulls a UN resolution disliked by Israel.
US withdraws Mideast resolution at UN. Basically because Israel doesn't want to be bound by any UN resolution, and the US is not behaving as a peace broker by acting in compliance with Israel's interests first. Oh, and don't tell me they are concerned by the Palestinians because the Palestinians didn't read the resolution, as the article suggests. That's ridiculous because nobody speaks for the Palestinians at this conference.
Picture found on Angry Arab.
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