Progress in the Mideast

Charles Krauthammer notes the under-appreciated developments in Israel:

Because we Americans tend to gauge Middle East success by White House signing ceremonies complete with dignitaries, three-way handshakes and pages of treaty provisions, no one seems to have noticed how, in the absence of any of that, there has been amazing recent progress in defusing the Arab-Israeli dispute.

How did this come about? Israel unilateralism and Palestinian maturation.

That maturation was indisputably helped along by the passing of Nobel Peace Prize winner Yassir Arafat.

Follow-up – Sadly, this doesn’t feel like progress: “Ten Marines killed in attack near Fallujah.”