Never was going to be! And a waste of time trying to negotiate. All that remains is the commercial boycott! And that needs to ramp and ramp up until those who voted for this man, hurt in the hip pocket so badly, they will remove him from office!

Anything else, including armed insurrection just plays into this man's hands!
Alan B.

As long as the US keeps on supporting Israel - nothing
will change.

Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi once stated "Now is the
time for the US, for the international community, the
Quartet, to stand up and say, this is not finished."

"Israel does not have the right to act unilaterally, it does
not have the right to wreak havoc and destroy the prospects
for a peaceful solution."

Isarel has been calling the shots since 1967, always
without Palestinian consultation, and clearly believes that
the USA will support it no matter what.

Sadly, once again the international community will place a
higher value on Israel's vision of its historic destiny
than on the humanity of the Palestinians.

The moment anyone criticises Israel - the cry of "antisemitism"
is brought out and guarantees an abusive and vitriolic
response. The message is clear - anyone who dares to criticise
Israel receives threats and abuse. You're either with us or
against us.

However as Thomas Friedman wrote back in 2002,

"Criticising Israel is not anti-Semitic and saying so is vile.
But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international
sanction - out of all proportion to any other party in the
Middle East - is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is
dishonest."

And there should never be a Palestinian state, irrespective of who leads Israel. Iran-backed Hamas is intent on 'wiping Israel from the face of the earth'. The areas released to the Palestinians are already used as launching areas for further attacks on Israel. Houses built by Israel market gardeners were razed and replaced with tunnels for getting into Israel. Nothing grows where once were industrious Israelis. The requirement is not for a Palestinian state - it is for the total destruction of the state of Israel.

As long as Hamas and other reactionary Palestinian groups deny the right of Israel to exist, and speak in terms of extermination, then why should Israel come to the negotiating table ?

As I understand it, there are more than a million Arab citizens in Israel, represented in the Knesset. Arabs live freely in Israel, so why not Jews in Palestine ? Why is that unthinkable ?

Once Palestinians recognise the right of Israel to exist, then negotiations can begin. I'm not suggesting that a separate and sovereign state of Palestine has to be as democratic as Israel, that would be up to Palestinians.

But how can there ever be an independent Palestine if it doesn't recognise Israel's right to exist, if it wants to push all Jews into the sea (or eliminate them in other ways), and if it would immediately and forever be at war with its neighbour, the very neighbour which is supposed to be solely responsible for bringing it into existence ?

Joe

Dear Joe,

Do your research on this issue before posting.
It may surprise you - as to who's been calling
the shots in that area - and why the Palestinians
react the way they do. It's not that they don't
want a state of Israel. It's that they don't want
it at their expense.

Dearest Foxy,

No, they don't want a state of Israel. When they say they do, then the negotiating can begin. Maybe a future state of Palestine can have z Jewish population in proportion to the Arab one currently living and voting in Israel, a state with signs in both Arabic and Hebrew, where Jewish kids can go to school with Palestinian (Muslim, Christian and Druse, etc.) kids. I look forward to that day, if I live long enough.

Love,

Joe