Israeli officials are quick to claim their support for peace talks, while insisting that the Palestinian Authority is entirely to blame for those talks not happening. Yet when actual, real proposals are on the table with US support, Israeli officials have clammed up, waiting for those offers to fall out of the headlines so they can get back to claiming the lack of progress isn’t their fault.
A late April peace proposal from the Arab League drew quick acceptance from many Palestinian Authority officials, offering to discuss land-swap proposals that Israeli officials had previously insisted were necessary to a permanent settlement. US Secretary of State John Kerry dubbed it a “big step forward,” while former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert termed it a great “opportunity” to resume the stalled talks.
The current Israeli government, however, has offered no response to the proposal, apart from a few speeches condemning the Palestinians, while privately officials have conceded their biggest fear is that the offer is sincere, and that the US might be on board with it as well.
This isn’t the first time a proposal has simply been left to die on the vine by Israel. Indeed, the 2002 proposal on which the current Arab League initiative is based met the same fate.
The reality is that Israel’s current coalition is split down the middle between people who would tepidly welcome a peace deal and a number of members who reject the notion on general principle. Jewish Home, a party which could derail the coalition whenever it chose, has condemned the idea of Palestinian statehood, with leader Naftali Bennett saying that God wanted Israel to have the occupied territories, and that they aren’t big enough for Palestine.
Is this should be surprise Jason..,? deception, intimidation, not being honest and all other related words is nothing new said and done by an apartheid regime.., the only language that Israel ever will understand is a total international boycott as the world did when SA (south Africa) was under such regime occupied by immigrants from Holland.
If God wants something, let God come down and say it for the world to hear. Invoking divine right in this day and age is absurd. The fact that evangelicals join the Israeli's 'chosen people' excuse to steal land and kill others makes them complicit in this very un-Christian behavior. Let Israel be responsible for its actions without hiding behind God's robes of glory.
I would think that the people of Israel would want to seal the gains that they have made since they started the 1967 war. The present Jewish/arab population is very close to 50-50 and the arabs increasing every day. If bibi screws up and gets into a war the is fought with the IDF then the Jewish population of Israel could drop with many getting killed in a war. It would be interedsting to find out how maany of the Jewish citizens have not been in Israel for years. There are a lage number of dual citizens and it difficult to where many live. The nation of Israel would be very different if the araba become the majority and take control of the nation.
They don't want peace. if they did they wouldn't have started this conflict in the first place. they are power crazed and I don't think they will stop without exterior intervention