The
Reuters wire states that “Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas has entered into his most serious confrontation yet
with Israel by signing
onto the International Criminal Court” and that “the
failure of peace talks this year to win a state or halt the spread of Israeli
settlements seems to have clinched his decision that now is the time for what
commentators on both sides describe as "lawfare" - conflict by means
of law.”
I would
have no objections if the term “stalemate” referred only to the “failure of
peace talks this year to win a state.” But “failure to… halt the spread of
Israeli settlements” is stalemate only if stalemate means that one side gets to
make all the moves.
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