Plans for peace

Here, at last, is the Taki plan to save George W. Bush’s presidency from the disaster it has been turned into by his neocon advisers. Yes, the Iraq war is a failure, but pulling out now will turn it into a geopolitical catastrophe of incalculable consequences. What Dubya needs is a great big fat win which will overshadow Iraq, hog the headlines and catapult him in the polls. The operative word is Palestine. Let’s take it from the top:

His latest call for an international conference, one that is supposed to give birth to a contiguous Palestinian state, is a good start. The trouble is that throughout the past 40 years, countless speeches, initiatives and UN resolutions, Israel has continued to build illegal settlements in order that future efforts towards peace will collide with harder realities on the ground. Hence Palestinians no longer believe a word that Arab, Israeli or American politicians say.