Danny Rubninstein gives his take on the road map. He focuses on the Palestinian perspective.
“The Palestinians are, of course, waiting for Abu Mazen, but their expectations are much lower, it seems. Judging, for example, by the poll published last week by the Jerusalem Media Institute, most Palestinians have very little hope from the new government, saying it won’t significantly change the political reality and won’t remove the daily suffering in the territories. Three years ago, the Palestinians also did not share America and Israel’s high expectations from the Camp David summit. Many warned at the time that an outbreak of violence was coming. Israel interpreted that pessimism as an attempt to threaten violence to squeeze more concessions out of Ehud Barak’s government. That Palestinian pessimism can now be read as a more accurate reading of reality.”
