Another truce?

June 18, 2008

We welcome the recent truce between Hamas and Israel. We pray the truce will hold beyond the its stated term of six months. We of course are not optimistic that it will change matters on the ground. In facilitating the challenging deliberations that led to this ceasefire, the Egyptian government has set an important example of the power of international diplomacy in helping to resolve the conflict. We urge the United States, which has been disappointingly absent from this process, to not only support the ceasefire in words, but to take concrete steps to capitalize on this momentum to achieve progress with Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations  Here is a recent article in the Bergen Record highlighting our concerns.  Bergen Record