Bradley Burston, the conscience of the Jewish state, endorses "Abu Mazen's Hail Mary:"
It may prompt and encourage non-violent Palestinian protest in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The prospect of non-violent protest is one that Israeli officials have acknowledged that they are ill-prepared to confront. As a recently released wikileaks cable revealed, "Less violent demonstrations are likely to stymie the IDF. As MOD [Ministry of Defense] Pol-Mil [Political-Military] chief Amos Gilad told USG [U.S. Government] interlocutors recently, "we don't do Gandhi very well." This, in turn, coupled with rising Israeli tensions with Egypt, Turkey, and the U.S., could at some point force Netanyahu to consider dropping Avigdor Lieberman's Israel Beiteinu in favor of Kadima, in order to resume peace talks.
Mark Goldberg argues the end result might be an ICC trial of a Palestinian national. Fine by me. Previous coverage here, here and here.
(Photo: Palestinian men wait to be collected by their Israeli employers after crossing from the West Bank town of Qalqilya to work in the Jewish state in the early morning of September 11, 2011 near the Israeli army's checkpoint at Kibbutz Eyal in central Israel. By Uriel Sinai/Getty Images.)
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