Reply #31: Well, I disagree, sort of.

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In the sense that it remains to be seen how significant all this blather proves to be.

But to the extent that it does prove to be significant, the significance will be in the nature of further political isolation and criticism of Israel; Bibi has lost control of the debate, as Ms Livni pointed out so pungently in a piece I posted in another thread. But that's all it is, the propaganda war.

The "Arab Spring" is much more significant, it has lead to the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation and the failure of the Gaza policy since the withdrawal, and more generally I would expect thrown all sorts of policies and planning in Washington and Tel Aviv (among lots of other places) into the dumpster. The Arab Spring has at least the potential to be as significant as the Chinese Revolution, for example (I hope The Magistrate does not whack me for that, he knows a lot more about that than I do).

I mean what comes after Little Assad? What comes after Ghadffi? Where is Egypt going? Iraq? Iran? etc.? Nobody really knows. This is just the beginning.

I do think the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation could be important, for I/P, unified Palestinian political organization could have a lot of consequences, but it's much too early to say.