Leon the tourguide

Leon the tourguide
Leon the Tour Guide

Friday, April 29, 2011

Arab unity and the peace process

The show of unity between Hamas and PLO has all the trappings of peace and hamony; handshaking, kissing on both cheeks, words of good intent towards each other and of course hints at joint action against Israel.

The show has achieved all round response from Israeli leaders, even Mr Perez, our veteran president and eternal optimist, has warned of the dire dangers that the moderate PLO is being manuouvred to an extremist anti Israel position by Hamas.

According to the common opinion, (Perez, Netanyahu, Barak and the general public) unity between the Arabs is bad for Israel. This is based on a principle that an enemy divided is easier to vanquish than an enemy that stands united in itself.

This is probably good strategy for two armies against each other on the battlefield but not for a dozen different nations attacking us at different times from different directions in a myriad different ways.

One enemy is better than a dozen different enemies.

We should rejoice at Arab unity because it's easier to deal with one enemy, either making war against him or making peace with him.

If this agreement between Hamas and PlO really succeeds it offers hope of either final victory over a single Arab nation or a peace agreement with them.

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