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Israel and Palestine: Talks going well. Do not expect peace
September 17th, 2010 6:53 am ET
 George Mitchell visited Damascus Thursday for talks with Syrian presidentBashar al-Assad. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toldChannel 10 newsin an exclusive interview onThursday, "talks will "take time" and are "complicated." The Israel Defense Forceskilled a Hamas military commander in the West Bank, Friday. Hamas hasdeclared its objectionto the recent relaunch of direct peace talksbetween Israel and the Palestinians, saying that Palestinian Authority MahmoudAbbas does not represent the Palestinian.people and is not authorized to negotiateon its behalf. In the midst of it allGeorge Mitchell says: "In negotiations brokered by US Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinianpresident Mahmud Abbas were having a "serious and substantive" discussion. All sincere and genuine efforts for peace deserve support andencouragement, be they a a benefitconcert by ZZ Top, or a thousandVegans meditating by the sea. In thiscase four senior politicians meet inEgypt, while other important politiciansin the neighborhood shuttle about thisway and that to weigh in, and weigh inthey should. This is all good. Very good. We wisheach soul in the play strength and theangels of clarity and courage. No one doubts that political dimensions play a very significant part of the tragic andenduring tensions in the Middle East. As such all the world should be grateful thatfigures from the very top of the political ladder are involved in talks. Talk is good, andto have direct conversations among the top most decision makers is best. Unfortunately politics make up only a narrow and delimited dimension of the quest for peace. They are not the heartbeat of conflict, our obsession with such talksnotwithstanding. Indeed, politics are not even the central dimension conflict and
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