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The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas Meeting: Building Drama-less Diplomatic Paradigms
[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - Good-bye to the dramatic summits that raise expectations sky-high. Hello to the long haul and drudgery of trying to change the reality on the ground. Netanyahu's approach holds that peace will come from the bottom up, not the top down. In this conception, peace does not flow from high-level meetings, but from incremental changes on the ground that change attitudes. The U.S. - apparently cognizant of its mistake in calling for an impractical total settlement freeze - has turned down the pressure. A new diplomatic paradigm has been developed, and it consists of making progress where possible, hoping that progress begets progress.