Time for ‘world policeman’ to take a back seat

WHILE the recent ‘roadmap for peace’ in the Middle East is to be welcomed in principle, it seems nonetheless to suffer from the fatal disadvantage of having been drawn up

Thu, 05 Jun, 2003 - 01:00
the wrong cartographers.

The US is far too closely identified in Arab eyes with Israeli interests and has of course earned a great deal of hatred throughout the Islamic world in recent times by its military activities in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It would seem to be much wiser if the Israeli/Palestinian negotiations, which are going to be extremely difficult, were chaired under the auspices of the UN, or even the EU.

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