The Talks

Submitted by Mark D. (United States), May 12, 2010 at 15:09

Give it a chance.

Give ground, keep at it, and maybe at the least the two parties will have something to build upon and go forward.

Having said that, at best things would be quieter than a library for a while, then such progress or peace treaty that they could come up with, as history suggests, before long sinks and torpedoed into the icy, biting, dark depths of - eeek – Islam.

Terrorist rockets fire into Israeli towns, or say they have better weapons now, into key Israeli cities; suicide bombers and Palestinians throwing stones; the Israeli military strikes to stop it and gets condemned by Abbas for doing so.

In other words, business as usual.

Because at the heart of this dispute is less about land than, broadly speaking, religious, cultural, economic, and intellectual differences, I believe.

Mark D

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