Peace or ‘piece by piece’
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
We are about to fight tooth and nail, even compromising our able bodied citizens in a trumpet call for arms against the Chinese frigates that might venture into the contested Spratlys which we want appended to our geography, yet here we are about to dismember what has been attached to us by the Constitution and by right, namely, portions of the third star in our flag.
But what right has any president by any law or tradition in the name of peace or peace talks should compound the protracted problem of Mindanao by forging secret deals that make the leaders of the rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) gleam in delight as they walk out of the conference room in Tokyo, Japan?
I have traveled quite a number of times in Israel and made friends both with Jews, Arab Muslims and Arab Christians — ordinary hard working citizens of the land of the three great monotheistic religions. The perceptions we shared about a separate Islamic state within Israel — an independent Islamic Palestinian in the works are coffee table but real and practical discussions. They are not the usual rationalizations we hear on CNN, BBC or on formal forums where the issue is muddled by linguistics, semantics, all veiled threats of destabilization by a belligerent minority, where disagreement is a leverage more than a base process to reach an eventual peace accord..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110814com5.html
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