President Obama plans to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders together for a face-to-face meeting at the United Nations General Assembly next month in a bid to revive long-stalled peace talks.
It all sounds depressingly familiar doesn’t it other Presidents have tried the same thing and got nowhere, probably because there are to many factions over there with their own agendas, so negotiating with one does not mean that others will fall into line.
What’s needed here is some blood letting, as harsh and as it sounds its time the Palestinians took the lead in solving their own problems, lets start with Hamas and Fatah, who speaks for the Palestinians, these two groups have been having their own little war for a while now, and they cant both be in charge so let them go at each other and last man standing wins, we could try the ballot box first but that does not appear to carry much weight in that part of the world.
So a massive punch up with no rules and the winner gets to decide, is it peace with Israel or do we continue this hopeless war with its continuous loss of life (on both sides) indefinitely.
I know its not the correct thing to say but that problem has become for a want of a better word boring, it has dominated so much news space for god knows how long that we are becoming numb to it,and its always the same pattern, new proposal, new roadmap, new initiative, new leaders, but ultimately same old results.
Do we really need to have this pattern repeated for the next 50 years with thousands more killed on both sides, no, so lets settle it now same amount of casualty’s probably but a quicker result, Hamas or Fatah clear the bad blood then the winning side can say enough, lets try now to live in peace with our neighbours.
Naive of me I know but I wish they would give it a go.
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