Dangerous peace farce

It is extremely unlikely that a Middle East peace agreement will be concluded, writes the daily Die Presse commenting on the start of the negotiations in the US: "Talking is better than shooting, they say. It's hard to argue with that. But when the talking goes nowhere and the shooting gets even worse afterwards? This is precisely what happened ten years ago. The American Mr. Fix It back then was called Bill Clinton. He hauled the prime minister at the time and current defence minister Ehud Barak, as well as the late PLO boss Yasser Arafat, over to Camp David to force them to make peace. The negotiations were ill prepared and failed. ... Obama is being more courageous than all the other US presidents before him, who waited until the end of their terms in office before tackling the risky Middle East problem. But he is raising in an unfavourable constellation exaggerated hopes that could morph into bitter anger. A flying school for camels would be more successful than his dangerous peace farce."

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