11.27.2007 5:15 pm

What must happen to make peace between Israelis, Palestinians?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Is peace on the way in the Middle East? Here’s what today’s Associated Press story said:

After months of frantic diplomacy, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared before a conference of some 50 countries and international agencies that they were intent on achieving what has eluded their predecessors for decades: bringing peace to peoples with clashing dreams and conflicting claims to the Holy Land. They set themselves an ambitious deadline - December 2008, before President Bush’s term ends.

Note that the previous paragraph highlighted the decades of failed peace negotiations. You can read up on…