Nov 28 2007
The other half of the peace process
By Daoud Kuttab
AMERICAN officials usually spend enormous energy highlighting the “process†in the Middle East “peace process.†Only in the last 18 months of a second term president or following a military engagement in the Middle East does the United States actually start to concern itself with “peace.â€This pattern seems to be holding true for today’s US-sponsored Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland. The difference now is that, unlike the Madrid Conference after the 1991 American-led Gulf War, the current effort is coming after a perceived American defeat in Iraq.