Another bout of craziness

Thanks to Al Jazeera for showing me something that would motivate me to update this.

Lately Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livini(I'm glad i'm writing this because I could never say it) has been at Doha's annual democracy forum. She said that Arab states do not need to wait for an agreement with the Palestinians to normalize ties with Israel and that Israel and Arab states face the same threats from Hamas and Hezbollah (It seriously took me ten minutes to write this sentence while my mind tried to block me from doing so). I've also debating whether to seriously discuss this point by point but I'll take a different approach.

At one point in Josh Rushing's book Mission Al Jazeera he writes about how Americans think that Iraq and Palestine are totally different issues while he states that most Arabs see them as similar if not the same. Why is this? Although some would claim that this is the work of the Israel lobby (This sounds like a job for Mearsheimer and Walt), I think that people really should be able to see that the conflict in Palestine has effects in the rest of the Middle East in some way. That said, I don't think that Livini is really trying to court Arab states. I think the statement is for the Israeli and American publics to say that Israel is still interested in peace but since the Arab states are delaying on normalizing relations with Israel, the Arab states are not interested in peace so we can keep on bombing Gaza. That's the only way this makes sense.