Stora drömmar och visioner men finns där förankring i verkligheten?

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 Jag har flera gånger under årens lopp konstaterat att Herb Keinon ofta gör en bra analys.  Här en text från Jerusalem Post:
Trump’s Middle East plan: Big dreams, grand vision - but lacking details for success
Like Oslo before it, the Trump plan soars in vision but stumbles on specifics...
...When he unveiled his 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House last month, it wasn’t – in his telling – merely a plan that would end the Israel-Hamas War, but one that would put an end to “things that have been going on [in the Middle East] for hundred of years and thousands of years.”
In the Knesset last week, he had this to say: “This is not only the end of a war. This is the end of an age of terror and death, and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God. It’s the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region.... This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”...

...The “foundational idea” he came to, he said, was “that people just want to be able to live with security and live freely. They want to be together. They want to have economic opportunity. They want their children to be able to live a better life. And they want to safely and freely practice whatever religion they choose to practice.”
Kushner said that for him, it was all really about “just getting people to focus on how to make the future better, versus getting stuck in these old conflicts.”
It’s a wonderful thought, even utopian. But it reveals a distinctly American, perhaps Western, inclination to underestimate how ideology – and often theology, of the most absolutist kind – shapes lives in this region. Not everyone just wants a Cadillac.
For some, “making the future better” means ensuring that you aren’t part of it. That is what Israel faces with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood ideology that animates it – the same ideol ... Läs mer...

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