Friday, 23 November 2012

Egypt has a elected lower house of parliament and constitutional assembly, a mubarak era dissolved parliament upper house that has been discredited and therefore constitutional deadlock forcing the democratically elected ceasefire winning president to claimmby decree logjam busting powers.
If they are required to get teh constitution passed within a given timeframe and the president offers to serve only one term of office afterwards to prevent him being a new Mubarak (though he isn't one) it would aid rather than stop their revolution.


Their military and the turkish one are both needed to peacekeep Gaza iunder teh Un resolution as part of a peace agreement building on the casefire as Israels army and navy can't risk being iverwhelmed by hostage takers, hence the policy of blockade from their perspective and as such peace is now as important as ever.

Thursday, 15 November 2012

When gaza gets its hands on Egyptian explosives and iranian missiles, peace talks region wide are needed that include the states bordering SYria nad Saudi Arabia. The jeddah version of the Koran may have to be noted and set aside with its references to Christains and Jews to create a lasting peace and two state solution with final status for Jerusalem. There is a modern translation (the Muslim version of teh NRSV / AV in the CofE) that omits the contentious and inflamatory phrases and that needs to be used for teh basis of Arab league summits regarding theology for it and peace talks. The problem is that Hamas are past masters in taking a view and avoiding things that go against it, particulary when attcked back, and with a dmeocratic mandate within Gaza territory.

The peace talks may be concluded with Arab coffee but they need a lot of milk from west bank kibbutzs whose status and citizenship need resolution peacefully.


All of which means that when Peace envoy calls for calm, I agree with him Tony Blair.