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The Press : On Prospects for a New Mideast Order

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The Israelis and the Arabs, long considered among the world’s most intransigent enemies, met in Madrid in a historic attempt to settle their differences. The peace talks, brokered by Washington and Moscow, were far from harmonious. Both sides vented age-old hatreds--but they did so face-to-face. And while working out a formula for coexistence promises to be a long and wrenching task, no one has yet thrown in the towel. Here are commentaries on the process from some of the world’s editorial cartoonists.

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