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Posted in: Obama on peace talks: Stop talking about talking, and start talking
09/23/09 04:22 AM
Jonathan Pollard is a US traitor and Jewish spy and he will rot and die in a US prison. These peace talks are between Israel and Palestinians and the Israeli's would make a grave mistake indeed if they ever tried to tie their peace to the release of a US traitor as a precondition or even a condition for peace with the Palestinians. The two situations are totally unrelated and unconnected issues. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get exactly what you want only to end up with far less to show for it in the end. Israeli's would be wise to remember they have no real political power in the world and the vast majority of UN members have no great love for Israel. Israel has been but one vote away from serious retribution by the world community and its support even by that last country is rapidly deteriorating in light of past and recent actions it has taken. There will be consequences for Israel if it does not make serious in-roads towards peace. The US is not going to protect or support a country that interferes with its significant efforts to bring peace and a negotiated settlement to the region. Israel can choose to do as it wishes, but actions have consequences with this US administration. Netanyahu's trip to Russia and his obstinacy toward the peace efforts will not spare him from the consequences of failing to cooperate. Israel has moved very close to losing far more than it could ever hope to gain by its failure to fully embrace this peace initiative. Do what ever you like and experience first hand the consequences.
Posted in: Livni faces criticism at Beverly Hills gathering
09/16/09 04:45 PM
Livni is a day late and dollar short. Obama for all his good intentions has also come to the party too late to change the inevitable outcome. Looking at the most recent maps of the occupied territories (http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/09/14/freezing-israeli-settlements-is-only-lea) the two state solution is already dead. There is no longer enough contiguous space left on the West Bank owned and controlled by Palestinians to produce a viable second state one could call an autonomous region. I'm sure the continued "natural growth" in the occupied territories will soon make even the little remaining Palestinian owned land incapable of supporting any serious 2 state solution in the very near future. Congratulations you now have your answer to the Palestinian issue. I have no doubt the one state solution will result in a failure of the present and last peace initiative for the region. That will leave those displaced by your deeds and actions only one recourse. I sure hope those territorial gains will prove worth the cost Israeli's will end up paying for the next century.
Posted in: Mitchell, Netanyahu can't reach compromise on construction
09/15/09 04:30 PM
If Jews wish to live among Arabs then why build the walls around the occupied territories? Why have the roads connecting Jewish settlements that Jews are allowed to use but Palestinians are restricted from using? If Jews wish to live among Arabs, why would Israel take millions of acres of land in the occupied territory for "public use" and give it to Israeli citizens or encouraged its development by Israeli citizens and freeze Palestinians from that land? If Israeli’s wish to live among Arabs, why have they continually ignored US and international requests to stop settlements in occupied territories in which Jewish settlers are given rights not afforded to Palestinians? Is living among Arabs best achieved by affording them the same rights as Israeli’s or by denying them the same rights in the territory where they live with Israeli’s? Myopic views are great if all you want to see is your own point of view and all you want to embrace is your own solution. I refuse to support that behavior, financially or politically. Obama has been interested in cooperation between the parties. The comments by Netanyahu are not cooperative. If Israeli's truly want peace, they would be embracing the Obama administration and its efforts to encourage the peace effort and a 2 state solution. All Netanyahu has done up to now is make it easier for Obama and others to stop listening to him altogether.
Posted in: Top Israeli, Palestinian officials meet
09/02/09 01:40 PM
Good news finally. Economic and business transactions have always been a great stabilizer of relations between people. If Israeli and Palestinian people interacted on a routine basis, exchanged goods and worked together in various joint business arrangements on EQUAL footing, there would be no or little conflict. The fear arises that feeds the conflict when people are encouraged to embrace a sense of separateness that suggests those people over there are different from those of us over here. When the barriers fall, the interactions grow the peace will follow. I wish them all the best in moving these intereactions and cooperation along.
Posted in: Just 12 percent of Israelis see Obama as more supportive
08/21/09 12:54 PM
You can please ALL of the people SOME of the time. You can please SOME of the people ALL of the time. But, you can never please ALL of the people ALL of the time. Those who are truly interested in peace will be pleased by Obama. Those who merely believe everything is about what they want, won't. It doesn't matter on which side of the fence they are located.
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