As Palestinian leaders discussed a possible US-brokered resumption of peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli government denied a shift in its conditions that might help end a three-year stalemate.How exciting is that? Reuters is reporting that the Palestinians are talking to one another about the non-conversation going on with the Jews. This is very exciting for everyone involved.
President Mahmoud Abbas began briefing fellow PLO leaders in Ramallah on his meetings this week with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has extended his stay in the region and appears to be hoping for some movement toward talks.
A comment by an Israeli official that Israel had agreed to a new wording on future border negotiations was, however, denied by a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kerry has given no detail on where he believes the two sides might give ground, though he said after meeting Abbas in Jordan on Wednesday that differences had narrowed "very significantly".What can this mean but that Israel is on the verge of an historic peace deal with the Arab leadership and that a conclusion of hostilities is right around the corner. Arab leaders in Judea and Samaria are discussing the possibility of discussing the possibility of having peace with the Jews and Israel is maintaining that it has not agreed to new wording on future border negotiations.
Well, who could possibly ask for more than that?!
A US State Department official said there were currently no plans to announce a resumption of Israeli, Palestinian talks. "There are currently no plans for an announcement for the resumption of negotiations," US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters in Amman, where Kerry is on his sixth visit to the region to try to revive peace talks.Yes, the "peace process" is going just swimmingly. John Kerry is doing a fine job in discussing with both Israel and the Arabs the possibility of having discussions with both Israel and the Arabs.
Meanwhile Israel, apparently, has no idea what anyone is talking about.
This is truly a breakthrough moment.
During his visit, Kerry has not spelled out his proposals. But his efforts won the notable endorsement of the Arab League, which said they "provide the ground and a suitable environment to start negotiations".John Kerry has not "spelled out his proposals" but the Arab League has endorsed his efforts! This is precisely the kind of thing that just bolsters confidence in the nearly imminent outbreak of potential peace processing. What this means is that there are people, both Arab and Jewish, in the Holy Land who are considering the possibility of considering the possibility of discussing the possibility of discussing the possibility of not killing one another.
Oh joy!
The Arab League confirmed this week that it was willing to consider swapping some land on either side of the 1967 borders, bringing it closer to the Israeli position. That is that the old borders would leave Israel at too great a risk of attack and that some settlement blocs should be incorporated into Israel.The Arab League? Excuse, but don't they typically refer to this as the "Israel-Palestine conflict"? I am pretty sure that they do, but now we are to understand that the Arab League is the decision maker on the Arab side? I thought it was Mahmoud Abbas. No? So this is not a conflict between "Palestinians," both Jewish and Arab, but between the tiny Jewish minority in the Middle East and their centuries-long Arab majority persecutors? Got it. We should discuss this thing in those terms because it is clearly closer to reality.
The Palestinian Jews have lived under the imperial and colonial oppression of the vast Arab nation for fourteen centuries and now those Arabs are talking about the possibility of talking about the possibility of having talks. Speaking strictly for myself, I could not be more excited!
Mahmoud Al-Aloul, an official with Fatah, sounded a pessimistic note to reporters after initial consultations. "With the current formula, matters are not encouraging. But no decision has been made," he said.Well, thank G-d that no decision has been made. We wouldn't want to rush into peace, after all. There is a reason that the Long Arab-Muslim War Against the Jewish People in the Middle East continues century after century, despite the fact that the yammering classes in the west seem to have no idea what that reason might be. Whatever the reason is, it has absolutely nothing to do with Allah or Muhammed or the Koran or the Hadiths. There may be a reason out there somewhere to explain the never-ending Arab-Muslim genocidal hostility toward the Jews, but whatever that reason is, it has nothing to do with Islam or any religious-political ideology emanating from either Riyadh or Cairo for, lo, these many centuries.
The truly sad thing, in my opinion, is that the Israelis, as usual, remain entirely intransigent.
Netanyahu's rightist coalition government, which includes pro-settler parties, says it is ready to resume peacemaking immediately and "without preconditions".The question is, why does Netanyahu's rightist coalition government, which includes pro-settler parties, say that it is unready to resume peacemaking immediately and "without preconditions"? One would think that after fourteen centuries of ongoing harassment and oppression and persecution throughout that part of the world that the Jews of the Middle East would want to resume peacemaking immediately and without preconditions.
Maybe next year... in Jerusalem.
Peace is impossible.
ReplyDeleteI've said this repeatedly and I am always right!
Oh and the sun rises in the east in the morning.
Peace will be possible when we win, Norman.
DeleteWhat do you think of that idea?
I would tend to agree. If 'peace' is either the absence of violence or a nominally normal relationship between 2 countries not at war in the classic sense, yes, peace will never occur. At best we can hope for a managed collapse of the Arab groups touching on Israel.
DeleteIs "Peace" possible between a Nazi organization and the Jewish state?
ReplyDeleteTHE NAZIS AND THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abGQY-1qoM
Everything the Arabs say is a lie. Every word, every pause, every punctuation mark, every breath. It can ignored 100% at all times. They don't warrant any acknowledgement that they even making noises. It is a vacuum of lies.
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Delete"Everything the Arabs say is a lie."
"The Arabs"? No.
Fatah-PLO: Yes.
Hamas: Yes.
The Muslim Brotherhood: Yes.
Etc.
And who has most influentially believed those lies? Non-Arab non-Jewish Western people. Non-Arab non-Jewish Western leaders. Non-Arab non-Jewish Western political leaders and Non-Arab non-Jewish Western cultural leaders. And Jewish people. Jewish leaders. Jewish political leaders. and Jewish cultural leaders.
And who mostly has invented those lies? Non-Arab non-Jewish Western people. Non-Arab non-Jewish Western leaders. Non-Arab non-Jewish Western political leaders and Non-Arab non-Jewish Western cultural leaders.
And who has most propagated those lies? Non-Arab non-Jewish Western people. Non-Arab non-Jewish Western leaders. Non-Arab non-Jewish Western political leaders and Non-Arab non-Jewish Western cultural leaders.
Animosity toward Arab people is not good. Many Arab people (at least a minority of Arab people) would like to be friends with Jewish people. And many Arab people are suffering. Arab people are the Jewish people's neighbors in the Middle East. Arab people and Jewish people are in a situation together. It is good for Jewish people and Arab people to develop friendship with each other. And the reason that so many Arab people feel hate toward Israel and the Jewish people is because those Arab people are very ignorant and because those Arab people have been indoctrinated with lies which vilify Israel and the Jewish people, and because those Arab people believe those lies. What is beneficial to do is to tell the truth of the situation and to join in friendship with Arab people. Jewish people and Arab people are together in the Middle East. It is good for Jewish people and Arab people to join in friendship.
Daniel - my use of 'Arab' is whomever is in charge or says they are in charge. What the 'people' think want need feel do or say is less than absolutely irrelevant. The Arabs who 'voted' in Hamas and the PLO may have actually wanted fascist totalitarian dictatorship. I don't know. I do know that's what they have that's what the rest of us have to deal with. Whether the 'street' is cheering or has buyers' remorse or is learning Esperanto doesn't matter.
Deletebtw, I am hearing a lot of sirens out my window.
ReplyDeleteI do not know, definitively, what those sirens are about, but I do know that over the last few days progressive-left morons have been throwing garbage cans through store shop windows in downtown Oakland.
The progressive-left is vile.
My keyboard and I have agreed on the possibility of maybe posting further comments regarding this matter, as necessary, if and when the situation warrants.
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