It is time to stop trying to force Israel to be peaceful with people who keep bombing them. It is time to stop blaming israel for the lack of peace, or stop trying to force Israel to give up more land in the hope of peace.
israel has sacrificed land, and people in the name of peace. The other side has sacrificed nothuing, gained a lot and STILL bombs Israel. So, how about we let Israel create it's own peace?
Is the Middle East Peace Process a Lost Cause?
SodaHead News
2011/01/24 18:00:00
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The Middle East peace process, between Israel and Palestinians, may have just hit the wall, after leaked documents show the desperation of the Palestinian Authority and the intractableness of the Israelis.
The documents, released by the Arab news organization Al Jazeera, give an inside view of past negotiations, with the Palestinians willing to give much of the land that encompasses Jerusalem to the Israelis. Palestinians have long-publicly said East Jerusalem would be their capital when they became a state.
The now-public concessions and pliant attitude from the PA went far beyond any public announcements they made and appear to go way beyond demands their own people would agree to. The release of the documents will certainly hurt the now moderate, political party and could damage any type of peace offerings for the foreseeable future.
While the documents don't show Israel conducting its negotiations differently behind closed doors, it does show that Israel’s claim that the Palestinians were not willing to concede much was in fact exaggerated if not completely untrue. It also gives an upper hand to the rival Palestinian party Hamas, which opposes negotiation.
The U.S. seems distant in the negotiations, unwilling to confront Israel while pushing for the Palestinians to concede more. The Palestinian Authority has responded to the leak with predictable outrage.
"The report aired by Al-Jazeera is an intentional mixing between the many Israeli proposals and the Palestinian positions," President Mahmoud Abbas said, according to CNN.
"We do not have anything secret to hide," he added. "All our negotiations and meetings and every issue discussed were presented to Arab countries with documents."
An aide called the leak a "smear campaign."
"What happened is a manipulation of the documents and a misrepresentation of the facts and a true distortion, just for mockery and defiance," the aide said.
The documents, released by the Arab news organization Al Jazeera, give an inside view of past negotiations, with the Palestinians willing to give much of the land that encompasses Jerusalem to the Israelis. Palestinians have long-publicly said East Jerusalem would be their capital when they became a state.
The now-public concessions and pliant attitude from the PA went far beyond any public announcements they made and appear to go way beyond demands their own people would agree to. The release of the documents will certainly hurt the now moderate, political party and could damage any type of peace offerings for the foreseeable future.
While the documents don't show Israel conducting its negotiations differently behind closed doors, it does show that Israel’s claim that the Palestinians were not willing to concede much was in fact exaggerated if not completely untrue. It also gives an upper hand to the rival Palestinian party Hamas, which opposes negotiation.
The U.S. seems distant in the negotiations, unwilling to confront Israel while pushing for the Palestinians to concede more. The Palestinian Authority has responded to the leak with predictable outrage.
"The report aired by Al-Jazeera is an intentional mixing between the many Israeli proposals and the Palestinian positions," President Mahmoud Abbas said, according to CNN.
"We do not have anything secret to hide," he added. "All our negotiations and meetings and every issue discussed were presented to Arab countries with documents."
An aide called the leak a "smear campaign."
"What happened is a manipulation of the documents and a misrepresentation of the facts and a true distortion, just for mockery and defiance," the aide said.
Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/palest...
Top Opinion
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Lanikai 2011/01/24 18:46:00
When you rob an indigenous people of their heritage, they are bound to resent you. Before you say "It says so in the Bible, so it must be," think that the Palestinians had lived in Israel for 2,000 years after the Romans put the Jews out. The fact is that the Palestinians have become an indigenous people of that area who were unceremoniously put out of their homes. Israelis have made their country prosperous. I don't fault the Jewish people for wanting to move to Israel, but they could have bought land like everyone else.
There is no such thing as "Palestinians". The Arabs conquered the lands where today are Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, etc. from Byzantine Empire in 7th century AD, which is 1300 years ago.
It's time to cut the apron strings to Israel anyway.
The country has existed for 63 years and has been fought over for millennium. Who it "belongs" to depends on your view of history.
I'm not alone when I say I'm just not interested in fighting this battle for them. There are similar areas of the world that we do not feel inclined to intervene in, so the moral argument goes out the window.
just talking and treats won't work for long term
Nothing we can do to fix that it's up to God.
We need to stop supporting either side and fix our own mess here at home.
"We are left with a number of revelations that are not surprising or new. Israel is not interested in an equitable two state solution, preferring a one state in which the Palestinians are controlled without democratic recourse. The Palestinian Authority is an effective instrument of Israeli occupation which is not representative of Palestinians. Finally, the United States is a dishonest broker who is acting like Israel’s lawyer and main supplier of aid. Again nothing new, now we just have concrete proof. These documents do not represent the death of the two state solution, they show that it never really began."
stop all aid to israel and force the closing of the world's biggest concentration camp!
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They are not interested in any peace that leaves ANY kind of Jewish state in existence.
The Arabs don't want a two state solution... they want one state only = 'palestine' as an Arab only, Jew-free Islamic terrorist state bult on the ruins of a destroyed free and democratic Israel.
In Gaza, the Arabs voted for Hamas,the Islamic terrorists who want genocide and war against Israel and the Jewish people. That is what the Arabs want... they will have to live (and die) with the consequences of their bad choice. Israel will survive no matter what. God bless Israel.
israel is the worst terrorist state in the world and our tax dollars fund it.
after all the nazi's were zionists and created the horrors of ww2. now they have moved to palestine. god?? so your god advocates murder of innocent people??
wow you are brainwashed!
Merriam-Webster defines racism as "a belief that
race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that
racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race."
It was the basis of South African apartheid and Nazi "master race"
superiority above others, especially Jews.
Israel has no constitution. Basic Laws substitute, including
statutes affirming exclusive rights for Jews. One is the right of return,
granting them automatic citizenship. Goyim are denigrated and not wanted,
especially Arabs. David Ben-Gurion once said:
"This is not only a Jewish state, where the majority
of the inhabitants are Jews, but a state for all Jews, wherever they are,
and for every Jew who wants to be here....This right is inherent in being
a Jew." It applies to no one else.
h i p o c r i s y ?
The palestinian government cannot be believed or trusted, that has been the problem with the peace efforts.
israel magnanimous????ROFLMAO!!!!!!!... they steal peoples land and homes . what world do you live in??
israel is and always has been the problem with peace and everything else.
http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/im...
hello,the original palestinians are the iraqis.
oh geee book that plagiarized older more advanced cultures is your source?? the hebrews were nomads,you know ,NO LAND!
the israelis are from eastern eurpoe ,look it up. they are converts to judaism. they are NOT FROM THE MIDDLE EAST! sheesh! just becasue they follow the religion of another group doesn't mean they are from there! no they were not promised anything except by the zionists who made an agreement with hitler when the jews refuse to leave germany!