Playing the blame game in this region can go back thousands of years. At some point folks need to look forward, not backwards. For far too long the Middle East has had the potential to ignite a much larger conflict. The current crisis is already broadening. There needs to be a peace conference involving all relevant parties. What Israel is doing now will not bring any lasting end to conflict. Regardless of the original attack by Hamas, the response by Israel is beyond the pale. The US should stop with all the lip service and push hard for a real settlement. If Netanyahu and the right wing won't participate, then cut off all military support.
Joe writes, "Just the day before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the World Economic Forum at Davos that Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state."
But Netanyahu is right. A Palestinian state won't lead to peace, because it will be taken over by ruthless people like Hamas, whose bottom line goal is not to live with Israel, but to end Israel.
If a Palestinian state were to be a true democracy, then most Palestinians would probably vote for compromise and peace. But like every other Arab country, there is no chance that a Palestinian state would be a true democracy. The West Bank is not a democracy. Gaza is not a democracy. No Arab government is a democracy.
I love President Biden and will vote for him all day long and twice on Sunday. But he's just wrong on this particular matter. On this subject, he's still living in the past. If peace wasn't already dead, Oct 7 drove the final nail in it's coffin.
I'm guessing Oct 7 was engineered in Tehran and Moscow, and if so, they played it beautifully.
The two state solution died with the second intifada and was buried on 7 Oct. There is no Palestinian leader now or on the horizon who could maintain sufficient popular support and offer Israel the kind of security guarantees Israelis would require. The only viable solution for the foreseeable future is some sort of Palestinian autonomy in a federation with another Arab state. The Arab states are largely responsible for the current situation and need to play a role in the solution.
Playing the blame game in this region can go back thousands of years. At some point folks need to look forward, not backwards. For far too long the Middle East has had the potential to ignite a much larger conflict. The current crisis is already broadening. There needs to be a peace conference involving all relevant parties. What Israel is doing now will not bring any lasting end to conflict. Regardless of the original attack by Hamas, the response by Israel is beyond the pale. The US should stop with all the lip service and push hard for a real settlement. If Netanyahu and the right wing won't participate, then cut off all military support.
Joe writes, "Just the day before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the World Economic Forum at Davos that Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state."
But Netanyahu is right. A Palestinian state won't lead to peace, because it will be taken over by ruthless people like Hamas, whose bottom line goal is not to live with Israel, but to end Israel.
If a Palestinian state were to be a true democracy, then most Palestinians would probably vote for compromise and peace. But like every other Arab country, there is no chance that a Palestinian state would be a true democracy. The West Bank is not a democracy. Gaza is not a democracy. No Arab government is a democracy.
I love President Biden and will vote for him all day long and twice on Sunday. But he's just wrong on this particular matter. On this subject, he's still living in the past. If peace wasn't already dead, Oct 7 drove the final nail in it's coffin.
I'm guessing Oct 7 was engineered in Tehran and Moscow, and if so, they played it beautifully.
The two state solution died with the second intifada and was buried on 7 Oct. There is no Palestinian leader now or on the horizon who could maintain sufficient popular support and offer Israel the kind of security guarantees Israelis would require. The only viable solution for the foreseeable future is some sort of Palestinian autonomy in a federation with another Arab state. The Arab states are largely responsible for the current situation and need to play a role in the solution.