After Annapolis: Prospects for Peacemaking

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CARLOS PASCUAL:  It certainly is quite stunning after a period of seven years of diplomacy lying dormant on the Middle East to get the kind of movement that we’ve seen in the past weeks and days.  In part, it’s been brought together by the interests of the Israeli and the Palestinian parties. It’s been brought together in part by a rediscovery or reemergence of American diplomacy about fears and interests related to Iran.

Yet, at the same time, there are real challenges that are being confronted. Both the Israeli and the Palestinian parties have internal political weaknesses that they're coping with. There's the limited institutional, administrative capacity of the PLO. There are questions about the region and how the region is going to be playing into these questions. There are questions about spoilers and how Iran and Hamas will play into this. And, hence, we have to look at very carefully having created this base that has been established at Annapolis what can go forward.

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