Exhibitions
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On March 19 the Quartet on the Middle East...
to emulate the "civilized" Europe when enforcing traffic rules, but the emotional Mid-Eastern nature prevails. Demanding that Arabs and Israelis live by the rules of the roadmap drafted outside the Middle East is practically hopeless.Under the circumstances, the Mid-Eastern mediators can only act as traffic police on busy roads, trying to maintain the status-quo as long as possible and offering the sides ways out of the crisis. It does not depend on the Mid-Eastern mediators whether they will be heeded or not. It only remains for the mediators to quote William Shakespeare: "A Plague on Both Your Houses." But they cannot afford this luxury and have to limit themselves to official statements.
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MOSCOW (Maria Appakova for RIA Novosti)
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