American 
E 'era Shamir the near future of Israel ? It 'hard not to feel the cold air coming into Israel from the U.S. government.
The first drafts were felt during the Lebanon war. But the defeat of Bush in the midterm election, the reversal of the military leadership, the increasingly urgent need to close the Iraq adventure have turned ice cold drafts in a stream.
James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and the group of old-with which Bush has called Washington to formulate an alternative strategy are, apparently, and quite logically I would say pulling out of the drawer the old republican politics. In the week that Condoleezza Rice will have talks with the Arab powers in the area, to design an exit strategy from Iraq is more likely to speak of Israel and the Palestinians not to Iraq.
Arabs are pushing for strong advances in "solution" of the Palestinian conflict. It is in this climate that you have read the
Olmert's hasty acceptance of a partial cease-fire by Hamas, which at first had been rejected and that is being implemented
without having first consulted the heads of the IDF .
pressures are likely to ask a high price though, as everything suggests, even Syria will be involved in the process. The price of the USA with Assad was already clear: the '
abandonment of the Golan by Israel.
As Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem Was expected to begin landmark visit to Iraq on Sunday, Damascus reportedly Was Set to Demand That Washington press Israel over the issue of return of the Golan Heights, as the price of ITS Cooperation with the Bush administration On Iraq ,[...]
If the Israeli government, contradicting the policy rather prone to the American demands followed until now, decided to start pressing on the brake
, demanding that Palestinians are the steps required to move (does anyone still remembers that he expects the release of Gilad Shalit?), the Israel-US relations are likely to return to the low point reached in the 90's. But in 90 years, leading the government there was a man of stubborn rock: Yitzhach Shamir. The man who could sit at any table, smiling at everyone and stand up without having ever given anything. The only Israeli Prime Minister Begin after that has not been asked to pay only the price of peace imaginary, with the sale of strategic territory.
The man who, perhaps not surprisingly, Israel has assured the international minimum of applause, but
maximum safety in recent decades . Let us remember this great article with
of Shmuley Boteach.
And we hope that Israel will be able to find in its ranks the Shamir began to be referred urgently needed.
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