Calming the South China Sea

Such violence threatens the continuation of the tahadiya.

Financial journalism was soothing.

The British believed they could convince Italy to abandon Germany through appeasement.

It has called on Palestinians there to launch a new intifada against Israel, even while insisting on calm in the Gaza Strip.

To be sure, the economy faces other headwinds, especially from the policy induced cooling of an overheated housing market.

Upon my election as the President of the Palestinian National Authority, we reached a national agreement to achieve calm unilaterally, which endured despite repeated provocation.

Allow me here to make my personal appeal to the world summit not to leave Somalia out in the cold in this crucial period of its pacification and nation building.

As politicians in the West compare him to Mugabe or Mussolini, Putin s Kremlin aides invoke the Munich appeasers who tried to push Hitler eastward.

Détente helped to keep the competition from spilling over into conflict as it exposed the Communist world to Western ideas of freedom and capitalism along with their benefits.

A now increasingly arrogant and extremely well armed Hamas expects such a lull to be agreed upon only in exchange for new concessions from both Israel and Egypt.

Instead, Hamas has turned its attention to the West Bank, where it has no political authority. It has called on Palestinians there to launch a new intifada against Israel, even while insisting on calm in the Gaza Strip.

A few tough messages from President Richard Nixon stopped the Israelis in their tracks and enabled the Americans to start a lengthy process of de escalation that led to a number of interim agreements.

Through a responsible national dialogue, we have been able to reach agreement on a unilateral approach to promoting calm and we understand the need to continue that process. In that regard, we believe the elections will have a positive impact.

So what can be done? Probably the only rational way to proceed would be to acknowledge that unilateral steps on both sides can still further the cause of de escalation and ultimate reconciliation.

For a long time, it was much easier to repeat the soothing mantra that the world community had collectively learned how to avoid a 1929 style collapse, and that the world s central banks clearly showed this in 1987 or 2001.