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Kissinger: Mideast Turmoil Prevents Regional Peace Initiative
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Regional turmoil makes it impossible to use the 2002 Arab Peace Plan to help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Herzliya conference on Wednesday. "A number of states are not in a position right now to undertake any regional peace initiative." For such an agreement to last, the regional Islamic states would have to offer Israel guarantees, and "one would have to ask oneself which countries are in a position to extend guarantees." Looking at a direct Israeli-Palestinian process, Kissinger said he was "not optimistic that the outcome can be negotiated this year or in the very near future." Rather than trying to resolve everything at once, Israel should take small doable steps with its neighbors that can be built upon for a future peace deal.