Summary
The Egyptian president whose brokering of the November 2012 Gaza ceasefire is, in Falk’s early assessment, the key diplomatic fact of that ceasefire (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.85-87).
Details
- Egypt played the critical role in brokering the agreement, despite its leaders’ Muslim Brotherhood affiliation; Morsi emerged as the key diplomatic figure, widely praised by the West for his “pragmatism”, understood by Falk as addressing both sides’ concerns without intruding his own pro-Palestinian outlook (PDF p.85).
- The need to allow Egypt the main arbiter role downsized the United States role and “suggests a regionalization of diplomacy that diminishes the importance and seriously erodes the legitimacy of extraregional interference” (PDF p.87).
- Falk sets Morsi’s approach as the model for the choice he puts to the United States: unconditional enabler of Israel, or a more “pragmatic” balanced approach of Morsi’s kind (PDF p.87).
Related pages
Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Gaza, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas