No, sorry. There needs to be some goodwill shown by the occupiers starting with the dismantling of illegally annexed occupied land! And that has to include Jerusalem.

It cannot be, defer, delay for another five years as more and more illegal land grabs are the order of the day, along with a Gestapo style police force and courts little more than puppets of the state?

When will there have been enough bloodshed? Say when six million Palestinians have been killed? Or when the apartheid state of Israel has no friends left?

I believe that the Israelis need to show their bona fides, and evacuate the purloined property and cease and desist in other moves designed to entrench the conflict! Move the capital back to Televev and out of Jerusalem!

The Palestinians may well compromise and allow (some of) the large border towns to remain? With that done a truth and reconciliation commission could be established with representatives on both sides at the table! And cannot be someone whose political/power-hungry interests are served by conflated and never-ending conflict!

I believe, the warmonger Netanyahu needs to be sidelined and sent packing if you ever want to see an end to the conflict or indeed the continuing illegal annexing of occupied land!

If all able-bodied Jews had to do a turn in the army, The peace process might accelerate at an unbelievable rate? Even more so if the orthodoxy alone, were charged with the forced evacuation of the illegal hilltop settlements!

And then blue helmets asked to come in as peacemakers for at least five years as a two-state solution gets us past the bloodshed. Bloodshed, which somehow needs to be forgiven and accompanied by genuine remorse by those on both sides, with innocent blood on their hands!
Alan B.

The Hamas/Palestinian terrorists will never accept Israel's right to exist; they are mad dogs to whom coexistence with Israel is not possible.

The Hamas/Palestinian terrorists will never accept Israel's right to exist; they are mad dogs for whom coexistence with Israel is not possible.

I'm sorry but peace on earth is impossible with Islam.

Islam has NEVER done peace with anybody in 1,400 years.

The recent developments in the Muslim world clearly shows that if you are a Christian, a Druze, a Yazidi, a Zoroastrian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, or a Hebrew, in an Islamic country, you had better get the hell out of Dodge. And non Muslim population levels in Muslim have plummeted in the last 100 years.

Islamic policy for 1400 years were designed to make life very unpleasant for non Muslims in order to force them to convert to Islam. This included onerous taxes, compulsory military service (the Janissaries), confiscation of land and property, not being allowed to ride a horse, not being permitted to carry a sword, and in the streets and footpaths, non Muslim had to always give way to Muslims. Add to that the likelihood of your pretty daughters disappearing if they walked down a street alone.

Foxy cries because the Israelis are doing to the Muslims, what the Muslims have been doing to everybody else for 1400 years. Most of the Middle East was once Christian, then along came Mohammad and his armies of armed robbers, gang rapists, and religious nutcases, who made the rape and armed robbery of non Muslims a state pastime.

Looks like poetic justice to me.

I think Alon's got it the wrong way round.
There can be peace without a process o reconciliation, but reconciliation is unlikely to work unless there's peace first.