Re: Kushner Abbas Fiasco
※→ justabubba, et al,
Nothing discussed about the relationship between the Israelis and Palestinians is as simple as it sounds; not the military, the geography and territory, the economic, the political, or even societal characteristics.
Just like the hardness of any diamond --- the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is more than a multifaceted and complex issue. There are matters of:
• Strict Compliance and Demands,
• Flexibility out of the Diplomacy,
• Political Dynamics,
And there are just as many questions posed by the outside observers as there are from the two principles. But we all have to remember, including the two principles
(Israel and Palestinians), that the dispute and conflict represents nothing more than the regional Arab Steady-State --- Conflict. It is merely the more encompassing international powers
(The Madrid Quartet - United Nations, the United States, the European Union, and Russia) to ensure there is a general situation maintained for the continuation of a dynamic equilibrium
(regional Arab Steady-State --- Conflict).
Hawkeye10 said:
Which we have been working at and failing at for decades....maybe because the people there dont want peace.
stop, do not place all of the blame on the israeli government
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Blame? Point in any direction, there is enough blame to spread around to every Politico and Militant that has touch the Middle East for the last 100 years. No one has clean hands. BUT, that is something well beyond repair now.
And herein lays the problem. We think that the political objective should be "Peace." That is clearly Western Thinking; not the logic of the Middle East and Persian Gulf Region. The regional Arab/Muslim Steady-State is "Conflict;" not "Peace." Whether you are part of the current day continuing conflict related to the Sunni And Shia discord, the construct of Kurd Nationalism, the consequence of the Arab Spring in Syria, --- or the Islamic Radicalism of DAESH, there is no real means of solving these problems or dealing with difficult personalities. It is a sociopolitical thermal runaway reaction.
Right now, today, the Region is pretty much in hovering in near equilibrium. It is not Israels fault; although they are not perfect and could have handled some aspects of the political-military-economic situation better, the outcome would not have been so much different as the result-in-progress is today. However, the entire region is sitting squarely on a Political Proximity detonator; an exothermic reaction just waiting to go out of control.
Most Respectfully,
R