What do you think?
Israeli and Palestinian Authority representatives are meeting Saturday night to patch up differences regarding the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails ahead of Tuesday's Israel-PA summit in Sharm e-Sheikh, Egypt.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's top aide, Dov Weisglass, who is heading the meeting, is expected to arrive in Cairo on Sunday to finalize arrangements for the summit.
PA officials warned that without the release of thousands of prisoners, the summit would not succeed. "If Israeli intransigence on this issue continues, the summit will fail," said Minister of Communications Azzam al- Ahmed. "If the prisoners aren't released, we will return to the cycle of violence."
That sounds a lot more like a threat than a prediction.
And if you haven't read Caroline Glick's latest yet, here's more depressing news.
Update: I'm told (by someone who was there) that at a lecture in Jerusalem last night, Caroline Glick "apologized" for her "rant," said that she let her anger run away with her and that she was too hard on Condi, who has proved to be Israel's friend. I don't know. I thought the column was right on target, although she perhaps overreacted a bit to the contiguity thing. It will be interesting to see if any of these second thoughts make it into print.
