One word from Adler's article haunts me ,though: REVENGE

If revenge is the bottom line for all parties, then I don't see any point in even talking about eventual peace.
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Revenge is the mentality that drives Hamas and Hezbollah, and it's useless tryng to convince them whose revenge is justified and whose not.. I thought this was about convincing terrorists that there is a better way and that terrorism is a dead-end street.

If it's about revenge, then nothing can be done.
Revenge will beget revenge will beget revenge., until some final cataclysm settles the matter – until next time. .

Not a source without its own ideologiclal axe to grind.

The prospect of deer-in-the-headlights Obambi in the WH might push the schedule of mayhem in the Middle East to a rapid pace—although Adler's piece is better than normal in the French environment.

Secretagent puts a lot of stock in Le Monde, which is falling faster than the NYT in circulation & influence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Adler

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

Adler was one of the rare French intellectual to defend George W. Bush's candidacy against Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election. He has qualified the altermondialist movement as an “enemy of freedom,” and supported both the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. His positions have sometimes lead to polemics, such as his qualification of France-Inter radio journalist Daniel Mermet as a “Brejnevian journalist,” head of Politis newspaper Bernard Langlois as a “repugnant journalist” (journaliste répugnant) and Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins Sans Frontières France as a “Jewish traitor” because of his criticisms of Israel and the US' policies.